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Family: Rubiaceae	Genus: Morinda	Species: Morinda citrifolia Linn.( नोनी, बरतुंडी )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Morinda tomentosa B. Heyne ex Roth., Morinda chachuca Buch.-Ham.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Bartundi, Cheese fruit, Noni.	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Indian Mulberry, Great morinda, Cheese fruit.	Flowering Period	Jan-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Noni , Bartundi	Fruiting Period	Jan-Dec
Altitude	upto 100 m	Fruit Type	Multiple
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit schizocarpic (multiple fruit) with a pungent odor when ripening, at first green, the fruit turns yellow then almost white as it ripens.
Habitat	Flat land on seashores, sparse forests.	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	Found in Southeast, throughout India and into the Pacific islands as far as the islands of French Polynesian. It is also found in some parts of the West Indies.	Bark Details	Bark pale greyish-brown, shallowly fissured.
Distribution in Haryana	, Morni-Pinjore	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Shrub or small tree, up to 9 m tall. Leaves simple, opposite or solitary opposite an inflorescence; petiole glabrous; blade fleshy, drying papery, elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or ovate, glabrous and shiny on both surfaces, base acute or acuminate, apex acute to obtuse; stipules interpetiolar, free or shortly fused to petioles, broadly triangular to ovate, obtuse or rounded. Flower cymose (hypanthia partially fused) distylous, calyx glabrous or puberulent; limb subtruncate to truncate, flowers of a head with 1(-3) calycophylls, white, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate; corolla white, funnelform, outside glabrous; tube densely villous in throat; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate. Fruit Schizocarpic (multiple fruit) with a pungent odor when ripening, at first green, the fruit turns yellow then almost white as it ripens.	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, opposite or solitary opposite an inflorescence; petiole glabrous; blade fleshy, drying papery, elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or ovate, glabrous and shiny on both surfaces, base acute or acuminate, apex acute to obtuse; stipules interpetiolar, free or shortly fused to petioles, broadly triangular to ovate, obtuse or rounded.

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