Indian mulberry
ನೋನಿவெண்நுணாతొగరు చెట్టు
Morinda citrifolia L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 7.5 m
- wide
- —
Rubiaceae
Also called Cheese fruit, Rotten Cheesefruit
Formerly Morinda ligulata, Morinda litoralis, Morinda macrophylla, Morinda mudia, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 6.0 m to 9.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Vietnamese
- nhàu
- Chinese
- 橘叶巴戟, 檄樹, 海滨木巴戟
- Simplified Chinese
- 橘叶巴戟, 檄树, 海巴戟
- Tamil
- வெண்நுணா
- Telugu
- తొగరు చెట్టు
- Kannada
- ನೋನಿ
- Marathi
- नोनी
- Bangla
- মরিণ্ডা সিট্রিফোলিয়া, আউছ গাছ
- Malayalam
- മഞ്ഞപ്പാവുട്ട
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Morinda citrifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.