This plant grows in the lowlands at an altitude of 1500 m. Mulberry tree height reaches 3-8 m, has a white flower head. Shiny green fruit and have spots.
Morinda is often used as ingredients in medicines.
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Morinda origins can not be separated in the presence of Polynesian peoples who settled in the Pacific Islands. Polynesian peoples believed came from (Southeast Asia). In the year 100 BC, the famous people who dare to mengembara.Tanpa because obviously they crossed the ocean to leave their homeland. There is the impression that the pilgrims in kecewakan by one thing and mean distance himself from his previous life. After long wandering, they arrived at around Polynesia, the islands around the South Pacific. The adventurers are instantly fell in love while viewing the beautiful scenery, beach conditions, and its islands.
Uniquely, they seemed to have prepared ourselves to move to another island. This can be evidenced by the number of plants and animals that come to carry, because it is considered essential for sustaining life. Some native plants, such as banana, taro, sweet potato, breadfruit, sugar cane, and noni, which brought it dibawanya.Di between, there's still a form of cuttings and shoots. One of the plants, namely, mulberry, considered sacred items. Since 1500 years ago the population of the islands now called Hawaii's familiar with the title noni noni. They suspect named latin Morinda citrifolia plant has many benefits. They view it as Hawaii magic plant, because the fruit is believed to cure various diseases.
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Tree
Not very large mulberry tree, height between 4-6 m. twisted trunks, knaggy rigid, harsh, and has embedded in the taproot. Bark greyish-brown or yellowish-brown kuniangan, split in two shallow, not hairy, child bersegai four branches. Suklalu Tajuknya green throughout the year. Mulberry wood split easily when dried. Can be used to support black pepper.
Leaves
Leaf of the thick shiny. Noni leaf situated facing each other. Large leaf size, thickness, and single. Lancet ellipse-shaped, measuring 15-50 x 5-17 cm. flat edge of a leaf, short pointed tip. Wedge-shaped leaf base. Pinnate leaf veins. Hiaju color glossy, not hairy. Short leaf base, measuring 0.5 to 2.5 cm. leverage leaf size varies, broadly triangular. Mulberry leaves can be eaten as a vegetable. High nutritional value because it contains vitamin A.
Flowers
Morinda inflorescence type tubers rounded, 1-4 cm-handled. Flowers grow in the armpits of the leaves that leverage to deal with leaves that grow normally. The flowers androgynous. Petals white, funnel-shaped, its length can reach 1.5 cm. Stamen stuck in the mouth of the crown. Pistil head berputing two. Flowers that bloom from petals shaped like bunches. The flowers of white, fragrant.
Fruit
Petals oval round fruit grown into a chicken egg for some even in diameter from 7.5 to 10 cm. Fruit surface as divided into polygonal cells (polygon) freckled and warty. At first the fruit is green, yellowish to white before cooking. Once cooked, the white color is transparent and soft. Fruit flesh is composed of the fruits of the pyramid-shaped stone, red-brown. Once soft, the meat contains a lot of water noni fruit that smells like rotten cheese. The smell was caused by mixing between the acid and acid kaprik kaproat (compound cluster of lipid or fat molecules are very volatile, a character such as essential oil), which smelled rancid and caprylic acid which tastes awful. Presumably both these compounds are active as antibiotics.
Content of noni
* Substance nutrition: whole noni fruit is a complete nutritious meal. Nutrients the body needs, such as proteins, viamin, and important minerals, is obtaining a sufficient amount of fruits and leaves of noni. Selenium, a mineral contained in the noni is a great antioxidant. Various types of compounds contained in the noni: xeronine, plant sterois, alizarin, lycine, sosium, caprylic acid, arginine, proxeronine, antra quinines, trace elemens, phenylalanine, magnesium, etc..
* Terpenoid. This substance helps in the process of organic synthesis and recovery of body cells.
* Substance bakteri.Zat anti-active substances contained in the noni fruit juice that can kill bacteria that cause infections, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Protens morganii, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, and Escherichia coli. Anti-bacterial substance that can also control bacterial pathogens (off) such as Salmonella montivideo, S. scotmuelleri, S. typhi, and Shigella dusenteriae, S. flexnerii, S. pradysenteriae, and Staphylococcus aureus.
* Scolopetin. Scolopetin compound element as a highly effective anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic.
* Anti-cancer substances. Anti-cancer substances contained in the most effective noni against abnormal cells.
* Xeronine and Proxeronine. One of the important alkaloids terdapt in noni are xeronine. Noni fruit contains very little xeronine, but many contain material of (precursor) xeronine aka proxeronine in large numbers. Proxeronine is a type of nucleic acid-colloids such as colloidal other. Xeronine absorbed by the body's cells to activate the proteins that are inactive, set the structure and form of the active cell.
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