Anand ji This plant of which we use both flowers (suhanjna ke phul) and fruit (suhanjana ki phali) belongs to family Moringaceae where as the baobab plant belongs to family Bombacaceae (or sometimes under Malvaceae).
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Anand Kumar Bhatt <[email protected]>wrote: > Does it belong to the same family as baobab? It is written that it is found > naturally in South Asia. Where exactly? One feels that its natural habitat > should be Rajasthan. Is it propagated by seeds? > ak > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:05 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding pl. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Sharad Murdeshwar <[email protected]> >> Date: 17 March 2010 16:39 >> Subject: New use found for 'world's most useful tree' >> To: >> >> >> ** New use found for 'world's most useful tree' >> >> Water purification method offered for free download >> >> By Lewis >> Page<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2010/03/04/moringa_tree_knowledge_is_free/>• >> Get >> more from this author<http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Lewis%20Page> >> >> Posted in Biology <http://science/biology/>, 4th March 2010 08:02 GMT >> >> A recipe for using "the world's most useful tree" to purify water is >> being offered for free download, in the hope that this will help get clean >> drinking water to billions of poor folk around the world. >> [image: Moringa tree in Namibia. Credit: Violet Gottrop] >> >> The Swiss Army knife of the tree world >> >> The tree in question is the *Moringa oleifera* ("oily moringa") aka the >> horseradish or drumstick tree (also "Mother's best friend" in some places). >> The Moringa is cultivated across the tropical world and furnishes food in >> the form of apparently highly nutritious* pods, leaves and flowers. >> >> It also yields oil which can be used as lighting or cooking fuel (or to >> make biogas). You can even make a highly effective crop fertiliser out of >> the miracle Moringa. Handily, the trusty tree is also drought resistant and >> tolerant of poor soil. >> >> But that's not all, it turns out. You can also use Moringa products to >> inexpensively purify dirty drinking water. >> >> “Moringa oleifera is a vegetable tree which is grown in Africa, Central >> and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and South East Asia. It could be >> considered to be one of the world’s most useful trees,” says Michael Lea, a >> Canadian water-purification researcher. “Perhaps most importantly, its seeds >> can be used to purify drinking water at virtually no cost.” >> >> The method in outline involves crushing the tree's seeds to powder and >> making a solution with this. When the solution is added to turbid, dirty >> water it causes the suspended gunge to rapidly stick together into bigger >> flecks and so sink rapidly. Almost all contamination is thus carried down >> quite quickly into a sludge at the bottom of the container, allowing nice >> clear water to be decanted or siphoned off from the top. >> >> The Moringa-seed technique, according to Lea, isn't foolproof - there are >> various bacteria and viruses which will not be affected by it. But it makes >> water much safer and more pleasant to drink, and Moringa treatment is hugely >> better than no treatment at all, which is the norm for far too many people. >> >> “This technique does not represent a total solution to the threat of >> waterborne disease," concedes Lea. "However, given that the cultivation and >> use of the Moringa tree can bring benefits in the shape of nutrition and >> income as well as of far purer water, there is the possibility that >> thousands of 21st century families could find themselves liberated from what >> should now be universally seen as 19th century causes of death and disease. >> >> "This is particularly mind-boggling when you think it might all come down >> to one incredibly useful tree.” >> >> According to Lea, despite the fact that Moringa is widespread in the very >> regions where bad water is a serious problem, the seed-paste purification >> method is little known. Thus his paper on just how to do it is being >> published >> for >> free<http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780471729259/cp/cpmc/article/mc01g02/current/abstract>online. >> >> Now all that's needed is for the knowledge of the recipe to spread. We >> don't suppose we have all that many readers in regions where it would be >> useful, but perhaps some of you can pass it on. ® >> >> *The leaves of the Moringa are said by some sources to be several times as >> rich in the relevant desirable vitamins and minerals as orange juice, >> bananas, carrots and milk. >> >> Source: >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/moringa_tree_knowledge_is_free/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, >> Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg >> For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- >> Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Anand Kumar Bhatt > A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road > Gwalior. 474 005. > Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. > My blogsite is at: > http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com > (A new blog has been added on 11 March 10.) > And the photo site: > www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah, > Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
