Indian-mulberry

Morinda citrifolia, commonly known as noni, Indian mulberry or great morinda, is a small evergreen tree or shrub of the family Rubiaceae, native to a vast area of the tropics extending from south-east Asia through the Indian and Pacific Oceans to northern Australia, and widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. The plant typically reaches 3–10 m in height, with a straight trunk, four-angled green branches and conspicuously prominent stipules between the leaf bases. The leaves are opposite, simple, glossy dark green, elliptic to ovate, 15–40 cm long and 5–15 cm wide, with entire margins and pinnate venation. Small white tubular flowers, each 1–1.5 cm long with five spreading lobes, are crowded in dense, globose heads on a short axillary peduncle. The most distinctive feature is the compound fruit (a syncarp), which is ovoid, 5–10 cm long, fleshy and warty, ripening from green through yellow to translucent whitish, with a pungent, cheese-like odour at maturity; it contains numerous small, hard, reddish-brown seeds. The species is highly tolerant of saline and infertile soils.