Centre of Crop Origin
The Hindustan centre of crop origin is the cradle of many economically important vegetable crops. One of the vitamin rich mineral packed and nutritious vegetable of this tropical and sub tropical centre of crop origin, originally grown by Dravidians and later by Aryans in each and every home yard and presently getting extinct from cultivation, is called drumstick or as "Horse Radish Tree", "West Indian Ben" and "Never Die". The name drumstick derived from the shape of pod resembling the slender and curved stick used for beating the drum. Probably the name "radish Tree" was derived from the pendulous slender and thin shape of immature fruits of the tree resembling very much the silica of radish.
Origin and distribution
The tree is indigenous to North-West India. It is found growing wildly in the sub-Himalayan tract from river "Chinab" eastwards to "Sarda" and in the Tarai tract of Uttar Pradesh in India. Streches of the wild form of the tree can be seen at the Tarai belts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The tree is widely distributed in India, Egypt, Phillippines, ceylon, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Pakistan, Singapore, West Indies, Cuba, Jamaica and Nigeria.
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