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Noni fruit is from the morinda citrifolia tree. The small evergreen tree reaches heights of 15-20 feet and yields fruit year-round. The plant is found growing in open coastal regions around lava flows at sea level and in forest areas up to about 1300 feet above sea level.
The blossoms of the tree are a creamy white color. The mature noni fruit is about the size of a potato and resembles a small breadfruit“grenade-like”appearance, green or yellow in color. When ripe the fruit turns yellow and white. When the fruit falls to the ground and is ripe it has a strong pungent odor.
The seeds,which are triangular shaped and reddish brown, have
an air sac attached at one end, which makes the seeds buoyant. This could explain, in part, the wide
distribution of the plant throughout the Polynesian islands.
Noni fruit is known by many names. In Malaysia, it is known as Mengkudu.
In Southeast Asia it is known as Nhau. In the islands of the South Pacific
noni fruit is known as Nonu, in Samoa and Tonga. Nono in Raratonga and
Tahiti, and Noni in the Marquesas Islands and Hawaii.
The noni tree thrives year round
producing an abundant amount of noni fruit in a years time. Some say
that if you were to pick a fruit off the tree today, the same size fruit
or even a larger one will replace it in less than three months time.
"The noni fruit Morinda citrifolia from French Polynesia has been proven to be at least
20% higher in nutrients than any other noni from anywhere else in the
world."-Dr. Scott Gerson. Rich, volcanic soils full of
nourishing minerals combine with pure water and clean island air yields
the earths best noni.
Two thousand years before Columbus
discovered the New World, ancestors of the modern Polynesians ventured out
in search of a new horizon. Accompanied by their families, these
explorers set out in their doubled-hulled canoes and outriggers, carrying
with them sacred plants that would sustain life in their new lands: The
coconut, the pandanus, the taro, and the precious noni fruit which was not
used as a food staple as to others, but was prized as a secret to health.
The noni fruit is one of the main canoe plants of the Polynesian people.
Ancient Ayurvedic texts called noni
Ashyuka, Sanskrit for "longevity." The text explain that
noni balances the body, stabilizing it in excellent health.
A Tongan myth tells of the Polynesian demigod Maui, who was brought back
to life in a sacred ceremony where the leaves of the noni tree were placed
on his body. Such is the power of noni that factors into native
legends.
During World War II, soldiers based on Bora Bora were taught by the native Polynesian people to eat the noni fruit to sustain their strength. The noni fruit became a staple food choice for people of Raratonga, Samoa and Fiji who ate the noni fruit raw or cooked. Australian Aborigines were fond of the noni and consumed it raw with salt. Seeds, leaves, bark and root were also consumed by people familiar with the qualities of this unusual plant. You can find noni fruit "morinda citrifolia" referenced in the War Department Technical Manual * "Emergency Food Plants and Poisonous Plants of the Islands of the Pacific" from April 15, 1943. It lists noni fruit as a non-toxic fruit.
*Merrill, Elmer Drew. Emergency Food Plants and Poisonous Plants of the Islands of the Pacific. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1943. Bot QK98.5 .P3 M47 1943.
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