Moringa oleifera
Ben oil tree
IUCN: least concern
38
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1916
First collected
2025
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Moringa oleifera, most mentions first.
2025
Imada, C.T., Faccenda, K., Thomas, M.K., Gallaher, T., Oppenhemier, H., Kennedy, B. & Kalei, A. (eds.) Hawaiian native & naturalized vascular plants checklist (2025 update). 780 pp. [published online 6 November 2025]· Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
2023
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2023: VolumeEvenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
2000
Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘iStaples, G.W., D. Herbst & C.T. Imada · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
7 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1910s2020s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1916 by Elmer, A.D.E. (Luzon).
