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.