Tuberous underground or partly exposed root — the primary caudiciform storage organ
Pinnate leaves; elongated seed pods; deciduous in dry season
Ethiopia to E. Kenya — desert and dry shrubland biome
Named after Italian botanist Antonino Borzi; Family Moringaceae
Full sun; very sharp drainage; dry leafless rest
Moringa borziana is the most tuberous member of the genus from the Horn of Africa — a collector's Moringa honouring an Italian botanical pioneer, from the dry zone of Ethiopia and Kenya where the genus reaches some of its most specialised and unusual forms.
