Okay, how much do you want for a couple of seeds from your tree? :-)

Here are the instructions for germination and keeping the tree happy. You could
become the local supplier you know. ;-)

http://www.moringafarms.com/growing_it.htm

Best -- Gae

kn125 wrote:

I very much doubt if the horse radish available in the nurseries is
the "muringa olefeira". While I have not seen the horse radish that is
sold in the nurseries, I have known and eaten drumsticks for many
years now and have searched many places here in vain for the drumstick
tree. I am actually growing a drumstick tree in my house now, I got
this tree from a friend who got it from Tanzania. For about 2-3 years
now I have had it in medium size pots. I had almost killed it two
years back in the winter when I didnt water regularly and exposed it
to the cold. But it came back quite well. This summer I transferred it
from a medium size pot to a huge pot (about 23 inches in diameter) and
the tree just loved it. It shot up from 3-4 feet to 10 feet in 5
months and I am now not able to take it into my garage on cold nights.
I have been wrapping it up on the colder nights and I intend to place
it in the ground early spring this year.

This is one of my favorite trees, its leaves look like the leaves of
the pride of Barbados, but the tree gets much bigger. It is not a very
strong tree and limbs break easily when somebody climbs it. So I am
kind of wondering how it will last the fierce winds here. I am going
to plant it so that my house is between the tree and NW, but I dont
know if it is going to help much. The fruit or vegetable of this tree,
the "drumsticks", are green in color and get about 1 foot in length
and each has maybe 10-15 seeds. It is an extremely delicious vegetable
and its leaves can also be eaten. Very tasty. Both the vegetable and
leaves are available in sub-continental grocery stores (mostly frozen,
but if you go to Dallas or Houston, you will get fresh ones also).

-kn

Gae Xavier wrote in message ...
Is this the horse radish that can be bought in nurseries here in the
spring?

http://www.le.ac.uk/engineering/staf...al/general.htm

I had this great frozen TV dinner Indian soup called Sambhar and I
wanted to make some. So I searched for a recipe and "Drumsticks" were
called for. This is a vegetarian recipe, so I knew they weren't taking
"chicken".

I found the ingredient was for the "horse radish tree" or Moringa
pterygosperma and it seems to tolerate alkaline soils to ph 9!! and
tolerates drought and protects your liver and kills viruses.

Sound like a good soup ingredient to me! Can it be bought around
here? I love my "curry tree" that I ordered from NYC.