It's All About the
Moringa Name!

The Moringa name was not very common in my findings, I kept finding plants with the same properties but called something total different. It finally came to my attention that these plants where one and the same. Trees for Life has a list of the various Moringa names. The most common names used today are the Never Die, Mother's Best Friend, Drumstick Tree, Horseradish Tree, Ben Oil, Malunggay and my favorite the Miracle Tree.

As Gertrude Stein's peom Sacred Emilysimply puts it:

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Loveliness extreme.
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Sweetest ice-cream.
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From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594:

JULIET:

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

So, it really doesn't matter what we want to call this tree, as long as we can learn how to use it for our own benefit.