Morinda
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Morinda (Latin, morus, mulberry, and indica, Indian). Rubiaceae. Woody plants, sometimes seen far South; one species has been planted in southern Florida and southern California. Shrubs, trees and climbers in Trop. Asia, Austral. and the Pacific Isls., and some in Trop. Amer., perhaps 60 species now described: lvs. opposite, rarely in 3s: fls. white or crimson, in axillary or terminal, simple, panicled or umbellate heads; corolla-tube short or long, funnelform or salverform; lobes 4-7, coriaceous, valvate in the bud; stamens 4-7, usually 5, the filaments adnate to throat of corolla; ovary 2-4-celled, the styles united: fr. an aggregate of the ovaries, or berries, in the head. — -Some of the species yield dyes. The frs. of some of them are edible. One species, M. Roioc, Linn., is native in Fla., extending to the W. Indies; it is a branching shrub with prostrate or some what climbing sts.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963