Scientifically termed Moringa Olefeira, it’s a plant native to the Indian subcontinent bearing such distinct features as a light – colored knotty trunk and highly branched compound leaves. While it’s been generally hailed as a commonplace plant, now there’s strong research evidence emerging that Moringa offers substantial health benefits.
Called drumsticks in the popular parlance, Moringa is nothing foreign to Sri Lankans from all walks of life. With its pods used as a vegetable that make some delicious curries and its leaves used both as a ‘mallum’ and an essential ingredient in cooking crab and prawn curries and its bark used in many a concoction of indigenous medicine, Moringa is one of the most useful variety of trees grown in the relatively dryer regions of Sri Lanka
