Moringa (Merunggai, Kelor) - The Miracle Tree








Moringa is one of the vegetable plants; it is usually called the “drumstick tree".

In Indonesia, moringa is called kelor or merunggai and in Javanese, it is known as lamaran. Moringa is part of Moringaceae with Latin name, moringa oleifera (Price, 2007, p.1). Some people plant moringa as the fence or as the garden edge.
  


Moringa usually grows in 3-11 m high; it has oval leaves with a