cloves

Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum, syn. Eugenia aromaticum), in English called cloves, are the aromatic dried flower stalks of the Myrtaceae family tree. Cloves are native to Indonesia and used as a spicy seasoning in European countries, and as the main material of Indonesian clove cigarettes. Cloves are planted mainly in Indonesia (Banda Islands), and Madagascar; it is also cultivated in Zanzibar, India, and Sri Lanka.This plant is the identity of the flora of North Maluku province.Cloves can be used as a spice, both in intact form or as powder. This spice is used in Europe and Asia. Especially in Indonesia, cloves are used as an ingredient of clove cigarettes. Cloves are also used as incense in the People's Republic of China and Japan. Clove oil used in aromatherapy and also to treat toothache. Dried leaves are finely ground cloves can be used as a vegetable and effective pesticides to control Fusarium stem rot disease by providing 50-100 grams of dried pimento leaves per plant.In the fourth century, the Han Dynasty of China's leaders ordered every one who approached him prior to chew cloves, so harumlah breath. Cloves, nutmeg and pepper is very expensive in Roman times. Cloves into the exchange of materials by the Arabs in the Middle Ages. At the end of the 15th century, the Portuguese took over the street exchange in the Indian Ocean. Together it was taken over by the clove trade also Tordesillas treaty with Spain, but it is also a treaty with the sultan of Ternate. The Portuguese brought a lot of clubs that they get from the Moluccas to Europe. At that time the price of 1 kg of cloves at a price of 7 grams of gold.Finally clove trade was dominated by the Dutch in the 17th century. With great difficulty the French succeeded in civilizing Clove trees in Mauritius in 1770.Finally clove cultivated in Guyana, Brazil and Zanzibar.At the 17th century and the 18th in the UK the price of cloves together with gold prices due to high import costs. Because as one of the clubs there is a very nutritious food for residents and surrounding areas who eat the clove plant. Until now become one of the ingredients cloves are exported to overseas.Clove trees are considered the oldest surviving Tongole contained in the Village, Central District of Ternate, about 6 km from the center of Ternate. Cloves Poho-called 416-year-old is Afo, 36.60 m high, 198 m in diameter, and circumference of the stem 4.26 m. Each year he is able to produce about 400 kg of cloves of interest.

palm

Palm (also known as palm trees or tal) is a type of palm that grows in South Asia and Southeast Asia. In many areas, the tree is also known by names like lonta (Min.), ental (Sd., Jw., Bal.), Taal (Md.), dun tal (Sas.), jun tal (Sumbawa ), tala (Sulawesi), lontara (Toraja), lontoir (Ambon). Also manggita, manggitu (Sumba) and old (East).B. flabellifer a floral identity of South Sulawesi province.The leaves are used as a craft and script writing media ejection. Craft items made from palm leaves, among others, fans, mats, hats, various baskets, fabrics for clothing and sasando, traditional musical instruments in the East.A good kind of fiber can also be generated by processing the stalk and leaf midrib. These fibers are in the past is quite widely used in South Sulawesi to weave a rope or make skull cap, a sort of local headgear.Wood from the outside of the rod ejection of fine quality, heavy, hard and blackish in color. The wood is often used as a building material or for making tools and handicrafts.Bouquet of flowers from the (mainly female flowers cob) tapped the palm sap.This sap can be boiled into sugar or a legend or fermented into wine, a kind of alcoholic beverage made by the people.The fruit is also consumed, especially the young. The young seeds are still soft, so the shell, clear and watery soft (actually a liquid endosperm) in the middle. It feels like a fro, but better. Soft seeds that are often traded on the roadside as the "fruit of palm" (nungu, Tamil language). There is also a palm seed is cut in small squares for a mixture of iced drinks are commonly found dawet sale palm coast area of ​​East Java, Paciran, Lamongan. Dawet flavor iced drinks are delicious as palm sugar sap extracts derived from the original.Old fruit flesh, a yellowish and fibrous, can be eaten fresh or cooked first.Yellowish liquid was taken from him also to be a mixture of snacks and cakes, or to be made into jam.

sulawesi blak wood

Sulawesi black wood producing trees are kind of expensive wood ebony ethnicebonian (ebenaccae). Scientific name is Diospyros celebica, which is derivedfrom the word 'Celebes' (Sulawesi), and is a plant endemic to the area.

This tree produces very good quality wood. Dark brown wood color, black, or black and red striped. In international trade ebony Sulawesi is known as Macassarebony, Coromandel ebony, Streaked ebony or ebony black as well. Other namesinclude wood in Indonesia Itam, toetandu, sora, lotong wood, and wood maitong.Heavy black wood with specific gravity than water, so it can not float.
Sulawesi black wood is mainly used for expensive furniture, carvings andsculptures, musical instruments (eg guitar and piano), sticks, and jewelry boxes.

black orchid

Black orchid (Coelogyne pandurata) is a species of orchid that grows only on the island of Borneo. Black orchid flora is the mascot of the province. Currently, blackorchid native habitat has decreased considerable amount due to the shrinking offorest cover in Kalimantan, but can still be found in nature reserves luway grit in very small amounts. It is estimated higher numbers in the hands of the collectors of orchids.

Is called the orchid black orchid because it has a tongue (labellum) is black with afew lines of green and hairy. Sepals and petals light green. The flowers are quitefragrant frangipani and usually bloom in March and June.
Orchid black orchid is included in group simpodial with swollen bulb shape at the bottom and leaves sticking out on it. Each bulb has only two leaves only. The leaves themselves at a glance looks like a young coconut leaves on shoots.

kasturi mango

Kasturi mango or a mango Mangifera specific casturi South Kalimantan.Kasturi mango tree can reach a height of 25 m with a trunk diameter of ± 40-115 cm. Bark grayish white to light brown, sometimes there are small cracks or fissures ± 1 cm of dead bark and Mangifera indica is similar to. Stemmed leaves, elongated lancet-shaped with a pointed end and on both sides of the leaves of the middle bones are 12-25 leaves the bone side. The young leaves hang limp and dark purple.Compound interest with a double unisexual flower shape and often hairy rasemos meeting. The length of flower stalk ± 28 cm with a very short stalk children, namely 2-4 mm. Leaf sheath elongated oval with a length of 2-3 mm. Elongated oval petals and fragrant flowers. Stamens equal in length to the crown, very short staminodia and stamens like protrusions embedded in the base rate.Fruit is round to ellipsoid with a weight of less than 80 grams, yellow or orange flesh and stringy. Seeds of stone with thick walls. This mango fruit at the beginning of the rainy season or around January.Mangifera genus of 31 species found in Borneo, 3 of which are endemic species.Based on the decision of the Minister of the Interior No. 48 year 1989 about the identity of the flora of each province, Mangifera casturi plant set to be the identity of the flora of South Kalimantan province.Mango kasturi is endemic plants typical of South Kalimantan is gravely threatened. Taksonnya population tends to decrease, both in terms of the number of individuals, populations and genetic diversity. Fruit scarcity status is analyzed by using the categories and criteria of rare plants according to IUCN Red List Categories 30 November 1994.The assessment team from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in 1998 set in the category casturi Mangifera species in situ, or Extinct in the Wild = EW.Mango is known only to live and grow naturally in the garden or the forest and other conservation areas, but no longer found in the original habitat.

kesambi

Kesambi or Kosambi (Schleichera oleosa) is the name of a type of tree dry areas, relatives of the tribe Sapindaceae rambutan. Several local names, of which kasambi (Sd.), kesambi, kusambi, taking (Jw., Bal.), Kasambhi (Md.), kusambi, usapi (Tim.), kasembi, kahembi (Sumba), kehabe (MPA) , kabahi (Solor), kalabai (Alor), kule, ule (Rote), bado (Mak.), ading (Bug.).The names were similar to it is called in India, the homeland of this plant, for example: kosam, kosumb, Kusum, kussam, rusam, puvam. Known in English as a gum-lac tree, Indian lac tree, tree lac Malay, Macassar oil tree, Ceylon oak, and others. The names refer to the results obtained from this tree, such as lacquer and Makassar oil.Kesambi wood, especially wood paneling, solid, heavy, and very hard, pink to gray. This wood is tough, resilient, and resistant to change in dry and wet changing, so in the past often used as a boat anchor. Not easily splintered, wood is often used to make alu kesambi, cylinders in milling, and general home furnishings. Have high energy value of up to 20 800 kJ / kg, was favored wood for firewood and charcoal-making materials.Pepagan kesambi used for tanning leather, batik dye, so as not to sour mengelatkan sap when fermented, as well as to blend scrubs. Pepagan are finely ground and mixed with oil, used as a cure scurvy. The leaves are young, raw or boiled, eaten as a salad. Kesambi ripe fruit that has been eaten fresh, or used as raw pickled.Seeds, directly or after first briefly baked, compressed to get the oil. This kesambi oil (Jw., kecacil) containing a small amount of cyanide acid, and is used to treat scabies and wounds. In South Sulawesi, kesambi oil is cooked with various spices and fragrant-haruman, used as a medicinal oils; including the "oil makassar" (Macassar oil) are known to treat the hair. This oil after mixing with other substances, such as lime flour can be used as an ointment or medication to patch cracks (putty, caulking) boat. In the past, kesambi oil is also used oil lamps, cooking oil and soap making materials.The leaves, shoots rerantingan, and waste grain (meal) used as animal feed residual compression. Meanwhile in the forest industry, kesambi tree is one of the most important host trees for lac bug (Laccifer lacca). Lacquers and syelak (shellac), a sticky resin that is used as a coloring agent, pengilat food, and varnishes, mainly produced by India. In Indonesia, lacquers produced by Perhutani in Probolinggo.

buah kepel

Tumbuhan kepel atau burahol (Stelechocarpus burahol) adalah pohon penghasil buah hidangan meja yang menjadi flora identitas Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Buah kepel digemari puteri kraton-kraton di Jawa karena dipercaya menyebabkan keringat beraroma wangi dan membuat air seni tidak berbau tajam.Buahnya yang matang dimakan dalam keadaan segar. Disebutkan bahwa dagingnya yang berwarna jingga dan mengandung sari buah itu memberikan aroma seperti bunga mawar bercampur buah sawo pada ekskresi tubuh (seperti air seni, keringat, dan napas). Dalam pengobatan, daging buahnya berfungsi sebagai peluruh kencing, mencegah radang ginjal dan menyebabkan kemandulan (sementara) pada wanita. Jadi, kepel ini oleh para wanita bangsawan digunakan sebagai parfum dan alat KB. di Jawa, penggunaannya secara tradisional terbatas di Kesultanan Yogyakarta. Kayunya cocok untuk perkakas rumah tangga; batangnya yang lurus setelah direndam beberapa bulan dalam air, digunakan untuk bahan bangunan rumah dan diberitakan tahan lebih dari 50 tahun. Kepel merupakan tanaman hias pohon yang indah, daunnya yang muncul secara serentak berubah dari merah muda pucat menjadi merah keunguan sebelum berubah lagi menjadi hijau cemerlang. Perawakan pohonnya berbentuk silindris atau piramid dengan banyak cabang lateral yang tersusun secara sistematik, dan sifatnya yang kauliflor (cauliflory) menambah keindahannya.