I did not know this tree. Barry Stock helped me with th identification. Thank you! It is the famous Noni from the South Pacific, especially Tahiti. The juice from the fruit is sold as miraculous vitamine drink - very expensive!!
http://www.tahitinonijuice.info/
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This one grows on our plot. Only one of them. The branches are slender and long, hanging down slightly.
What can it be. Most of the local people we know did not have any name for it. One man remembered a local name, but I lost it. He said it has cultural use; The branches are cut and used to symbolically "chase" groups of boys when they are on their way to circumsicion. He said the fruit will get yellow when ripe. They are not eaten in Gambia.
The tree had many unripe fruits, flowers and flower buds at the same time. The fruit apparently needs long time to ripen. I saw no change of colour in three months.
Ahhhhh...the vomit tree, "Noni". The fruit smells horrible when its ripe. People here drink the pulp for health. Blehhh! It's from the south pacific.
ReplyDeleteMorinda citrifolia.
Is that true?? I have seen and read lots of very populistic commercials about the "fantastic" Noni fruit and juice from the Pacific that is said to cure everything you can imagine. Ghaaa, is it This One?? That was a surprice!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Barry!