Pemerian botanists.
Medium-sized tree, growing to a height of 15 m. Single leaves, scattered, long-stemmed; The youngest leaves brunette, who soon fall. Leaf blade circular to oblong eggs, 9-16 cm long, such as hides, flat brimmed however bumpy.Flowers androgynous, alone or both hanging axillary, with number-8, smelling delicious fragrant. Petals in two essays, titled four-four; crown with wide and short tube, in two essays, 8 and 16, the latter is an additional tool like a crown, yellowish white. Stamens 8, alternate with staminodes the scalloped edges. Fruits such as fruit Bunni, spindle-shaped, oval long as bullets, 2-3 cm, finally red orange, with petals that do not fall out. Seeds mostly 1, sprawl, hard shiny, dark brown.
Usability.
The flowers are fragrant easily fall out and be collected in the morning to scent clothes, room or for decoration. These flowers, and various other plant parts, also have medicinal properties. The fruit can be eaten.Pepagannya cooking water is used as a tonic and fever medicine. And interest bark decoction is used to cope with diarrhea and fever. Finely ground fresh leaves are used as poultices headache; as shredded tobacco leaves, wood shavings mixed with a little cup and rolled in banana leaves, used as cigarette to treat oral thrush.
Skin roots contain a lot of tannins and little alkaloid that is non-toxic. The oil extracted from the seeds of this plant contains some fatty acids. Its roots are mixed with vinegar can be used to treat a sore throat.
Fruit promontory
The wood is dense, heavy, and hard. Parvifolia wood varieties commonly grown near the beach chosen as the material stake in the manufacture of boats, to stalk stalk spears and other tools, cabinets and furniture, as well as for home pole. This variety can grow as high as 25 m and 40 cm large. Wood headland is also good to make an engraving, sculpture, floor coverings, bridges, and railway sleepers.The properties of wood.
Dark brown wooden promontory terrace, while younger wood colored sapwood with clear boundaries. Its texture is smooth and evenly distributed, with the fiber direction straight, slightly wavy or slightly chime. Wood density ranged from 0.92 to 1.12 (average 1.00), and includes a robust classWood promontory relatively easy to work with very good results; it can be shaved, drilled, perforated square, and sanded with very good results; as well as molded and turner with good results up very well.
The durability of wood promontory belongs to a class I-II; durability against wood rot fungi including class II, while on dry wood termites including class IV (not durable). In the meantime, the durability was moderate.
Unfortunately, wood is not easily dried promontory with good results. These tend to be curved wood, broke the tip and the surface cracks when dried. Although it is relatively easy to peel, but the veneer (a thin sheet of plywood material) produced tend to be bumpy. Natural drying must be done with care and in a long time; draining board 3 cm thick (of the water content of 39% to 15%) takes about 63 days.
Efficacy interest Tanjung (Mimusops elengi).
Arbor promontory tree form with a height of 5-10 meters, similar to the family Sawo fruit, leaves are dark green and shiny, suspected to headlands from India, Sri Lanka and Burma. Has entered the archipelago since centuries ago, from the Malayan peninsula and are now scattered in southeast asia. Cape of fragrant flowering trees and shady titled, commonly grown in gardens and roadsides.Promontory is very famous for its floral fragrance, and is often used by girls Malay / edited by the hair.
The fruit is green when young, when ripe reddish yellow, can be eaten with a sweet taste slightly astringent.
The flowers are fragrant easily fall out and be collected in the morning to scent clothes, room or for decoration. These flowers, and various other plant parts, also have medicinal properties.
The fruit is green when young, when ripe reddish yellow, can be eaten with a sweet taste slightly astringent.
Water decoction of the bark is used as a tonic and fever medicine. Decoction of the bark and interest used to treat diarrhea and fever.
Finely ground fresh leaves are used as poultices headache; as shredded tobacco leaves, wood shavings mixed with a little cup and rolled in banana leaves, used as cigarette to treat oral thrush.
Part bark, leaves and flowers.
Toothache and removes bad breath.
Bark is boiled with water and made mouthwash for four days
Treating wounds.
Water tree bark decoction is used to wash wounds.
Hair perfume.
Flowers headland soaked into coconut oil and dilumurkan to the hair.
Air freshener.
Put a handful of flowers headland in the room
Aroma therapy.
Take a handful of flowers on the headland and then boiled with 4 liters of water to boiling water mixed with lukewarm to cool to lukewarm, then wash your body will smell good and make the mind feels comfortable.
Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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