Moringaceae, Moringa oleifera, horshraddish tree, drumstick tree
Yeilding protein, oil, and carbohydrates, and with a load of vitimins and minerals, moringa is possibly the planet’s most unterdeveloped tree. A sort of food market on a stalk, it yeilds at least four different edibles: pods, leaves, seeds, roots. And beyond edbles, it provides products that make village life more self-sufficient: lubricating oil, lamp oil, wood, paper, liquid fuel, skin treatments, the means to purify water, adn more. The green pods, which look like giant green beans but taste something like asparagus, are notably nutritious. foliage is an important food product as well. People in various coutries boil up the tiny leaflets and eat them like spinach. Taken all round, this supreme plant shows a capacity to help solve problems such as hunger, malnutritoiu, rural poverty, disease, deforestation, and visual blight. although the experiences come almost exclusively from India, the genus Moringa is inherently African, so it has ancestral roots in sub-saharan soils.
Climate: Humid lowlands, dry savanna, uplands
Read more: http://www.icuc-iwmi.org/files/Publications/Moringa%20oleifera%20medicinal%20properties.pdf
ECHO http://www.echonet.org has seeds of this if anyone is interested. Came up well for us.