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Navli (Camonea vitifolia)

Navli ( Camonea vitifolia ) is a plant species in the Convolvulaceae, herbaceous climbing on other plants or supporting or prostrating above the ground, cylindrical stems, up to 4 meters long, reddish in color and white hair that is rough or bare. C. vitifolia has leaves with long stalks up to 14 cm. Leaf blade up to 16 cm wide, palmate in shape with 5-7 lobes, green surface and coarse white hairs. Flower buds are oval, narrow, pointed and have white hair. Flowers are funnel-shaped, 6 cm long, 10 cm wide, glabrous, bright yellow and pale at the base. The anthers rotate spirally and are white. This species grows on the forest floor, open grasslands, shrubs, along fields, teak forests, secondary forest edges, river banks and roadsides. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Solanales Family: Convolvulaceae Subfamily: Convolvuloideae Tribe: Merremieae Genus: Camonea Species: Camonea vitifolia

Breadnut (Artocarpus camansi)

Kluwih or breadnut ( Artocarpus camansi ) is a plant species in Moraceae, a tree with a height of up to 35 meters, cylindrical stem, hard and sturdy, many branches, producing a milky white sticky sap on the surface of the stem and has a growth rate of 0.5-1.5 meters per year. A, camansi has large, thick and strong leaves, 40-60 cm long, 25-45 cm wide and pinnately pinnate. Male and female flowers occur at the ends of the branches. Each male flower has two anthers and is club-shaped. Thousands of male flowers are grouped together in 3 cm diameter and 25-35 cm long inflorescences. The fruit is round, thick and spiny skin, weighing 800 g, 16-20 cm long, 8-15 cm wide, greenish-yellow in color and each mature tree produces 600-800 fruits per year. The inside of the fruit is white with a sweet taste and aroma. Each fruit has 12-150 seeds with a mass of 7-10 g per seed. Kluwih can be found in tropical environments along the lowlands at elevations of 0-1550 meters, on stagnant river banks ...

Bilimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi)

Belimbing sayur or bilimbi ( Averrhoa bilimbi ) is a plant species in the Oxalidaceae, up to 10 meters high, slender stems with a diameter of 30 cm, rough and bumpy bark, slightly branched and leaning upwards, young branches have smooth, velvety hair and are colored light brown. A. bilimbi has compound leaves, pinnate, arranged in a double format and 20-50 cm long. Each leaf has 11-37 items, seated alternately or in half pairs, short stalk, ovate to oblong, pointed tip, rounded base, flat edge, 2-10 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, green and side bright green underside. The inflorescence is compound and arranged in panicles 5-20 cm long. Groups, coming out of large branches, star-shaped and red or reddish purple. Buni fruit, oval in shape, 4-8 cm long, yellowish green, watery and sour in taste. The seeds are ovoid and flat. This plant grows in the lowlands with an altitude of up to 500 meters. Likes a place that is not shaded and quite damp. The plant contains formic acid, glucosides, peroxide...

Snake climber (Phanera scandens)

Snake climber ( Phanera scandens ) is a plant species in the Fabaceae, herbaceous climbing or spreading on the ground, the leaves have long and slender stalks. Butterfly wing-shaped leaves, split symmetrically, heart base, sharp tip, upper side is dark green and glossy, P. scandens has flowers in panicles, branched and white. This species grows on the forest floor, climbing the forest canopy, agroforestry areas, agricultural fields and roadsides. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Subfamily: Cercidoideae Tribe: Bauhinieae Genus: Phanera Lour. in Fl. Cochinch.: 37 (1790) Species: Phanera scandens (L.) Lour. ex Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 122 (1838) HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS Bauhinia scandens L. in Sp. Pl.: 374 (1753) Lasiobema scandens (L.) de Wit in Reinwardtia 3: 427 (1956) HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS Bauhinia anguina Roxb. in Pl. Coromandel 3: 82 (1820) Bauhinia anguina var. horsfieldii (Miq.) Watt ex Prain in J. ...

River toad (Phrynoidis asper)

Bangkong sungai or river toad ( Phrynoidis asper ) is a species of animal in the Bufonidae, a large frog, not fat and rather slender, often with rough nodules and large lumps, males have a length of 70-100 mm and females have a length of 95-120 mm. P. asper has a dull dark brown or grayish or blackish back. Black speckled underside. Males usually have black chin skin. Swimming membranes down to the toes. The male calls the female from the river bank when the moon is full. Sound: wok.. sis, it's heavy and it repeats rather slowly. They are often found near rivers, on rocks up to the cliffs above. Sometimes also in low shrub branches. Active at night and hides behind rocks during the day. Sometimes swimming in groups in hidden water. This species can jump long distances with long legs. Often plays dead when caught. When held and placed on their backs on a flat and level place, they will remain motionless for a few moments and then suddenly turn around and jump instantly. Kingdom...

Balbis banana (Musa balbisiana)

Seedy banana or balbis banana ( Musa balbisiana ) is a plant species in the Musaceae, arising from a completely buried tuber, stems formed as pseudostems with heaps of leaf sheaths, succulent, erect, very large and strong, green and black in color and produce shoots in surrounding. M. balbisiana has elongated leaves, 120 cm long, 45 cm wide, impermeable, a midrib, dark blue and green with a powdery coating. Inflorescences grow horizontally or obliquely from the end of the stem. The female flowers are near the base and develop into fruit, the male flowers are on the uppermost bud and form buds between the leathery bracts. The fruits grow in a bunch. The fruit is square with 3-5 corners, 5-13 cm long and 2.5-5.5 cm in diameter. The skin is very thick, strong and flexible like rubber. The flesh is white and starchy. The seeds are very large and very numerous. This species grows best in fertile, well-drained soil with full sun exposure, tolerates dry soils and cooler temperate climates...

Java apple (Syzygium samarangense)

Jambu Semarang or Java apple ( Syzygium samarangense ) is a species of plant in Myrtaceae, a tropical tree up to 15 meters high, many branches, short trunk, wide but open crown from the bottom of the tree, the bark is bright red gray and easily peels off. S. samarangense has green leaves, oval, elongated and slender, sharp tip, 10-28 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, aromatic when crushed. The leaves sit opposite and have short stalks. Flowers are formed in panicles, white to yellowish white, 2.5 cm in diameter, four petals and many stamens. The flowers and fruit produced are not limited to the leaf axils and can appear at almost any point on the surface of the stem and branches. Edible bell-shaped berries, white or pale green or green or red or purple or dark red or dark purple or black. The fruit is 4-7 cm long and has four fleshy calyx lobes at the end. Thin skin, white and chewy flesh. Each berry houses a spherical shaped seed. When mature, this tree produces up to 700 fruits in one harv...

Cubeb (Piper cubeba)

Kemukus or tailed pepper or cubeb ( Piper cubeba ) is a species of plant in the Piperaceae, growing climbing, woody perennial and sturdy, up to 10 meters or more high on supporting trees, spreading, rooting easily where the stems are left touching the ground. P. cubeba has leaves that sit alternately, intact, thick, 5-10 cm long, 2-6 cm wide and green. Flowers are small, produced on pendulous spikes 4-8 cm long at leaf nodes, spikes extending to 7-15 cm as fruit ripens. The fruit is round, has a long stalk, is green and turns brownish red. This species grows in moist, well-drained, organic matter-rich areas, elevations below 900 meters and climbs trees with rough bark. The plants bear fruit from the fourth or fifth year and usually for seven years. One stem produces 20-30 spikes of fruit. The fruit is carefully dried as a dried berry, similar to black pepper, but with the stem attached. The dry pericarp is wrinkled and grayish brown to black in color. The seeds are hard, white an...

Blue eranthemum (Eranthemum pulchellum)

Blue eranthemum ( Eranthemum pulchellum ) is a species of plant in the Acanthaceae, flowering shrub, evergreen, upright, up to 1 meter high, many branched, strong, woody, with trident branches, the lower stem is cylindrical and brown in color, the young stem is square with corners are clear and green. E. pulchellum has elliptical leaves, up to 30 cm long, up to 14 cm wide, thick, stiff and leathery, dark green in color, sharp tip, serrated margins, threaded veins and hairy. Leaves have stalks and appear on branches. Flowers emerge from green-white veined bracts remaining after the bloom falls, forming columns several centimeters long. The flowers are fan-shaped with a 2 cm long, 2 cm wide, five-parted flower and are bright blue. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Lamiales Family: Acanthaceae Subfamily: Acanthoideae Tribe: Ruellieae Subtribe: Erantheminae Genus: Eranthemum L. in Sp. Pl.: 9 (1753) Species: Eranthemum pulc...

Sleepy morning (Waltheria indica)

Sleepy morning ( Waltheria indica ) is a plant species in the Malvaceae, short-lived subshrub or shrub, up to 2 meters high, stem diameter 2 cm, most common in dry, disturbed and humid habitats, rainfall 750-1800 mm/year and elevation from sea level up to 400 meters. W. indica has a taproot, brown in color and flexible. Stem cylindrical, erect and strong, rising from beneath the soil surface, branched, green or reddish and white-haired. Leaves alternate, narrow, oval or heart-shaped, edge regularly toothed, veins pinnate, wavy, green and white haired. Flowers appear at 6 months of age and bloom less or more until death occurs. Flowers are yellow and produce nectar. This plant is drought tolerant. Generally easy to find in disturbed areas, weeds on roadside areas, cotton fields, rocks, savanna, river banks and forest boundaries. This species contains alkaloids (adouetins X, Y, Y1, Z and cyclopeptid alkaloids), flavonoids (epicatechin, tiliroside, quercetin and kaemperol), sterols, ...

Saba banana (Musa acuminata ABB Group 'Saba')

Cavendish banana (Musa acuminata) Señorita banana (Musa acuminata AA Group 'Señorita') Red banana (Musa acuminata AAA Group 'Red Dacca' Pisang kepok or saba banana ( Musa acuminata ABB Group 'Saba') is a cultivar in Musaceae, arising from a completely buried tuber, stem formed as a pseudostem with heaps of leaf sheaths, succulent, erect, very large and strong, 6-9 meters high, 0.91 meter in diameter, dark blue and green in color and produces buds around it. M. acuminata (ABB Group) 'Saba' has elongated leaves, 120 cm long, 45 cm wide, impermeable, a midrib, dark blue and greenish with a powdery coating. Inflorescences grow horizontally or obliquely from the end of the stem. The female flowers are near the base and develop into fruit, the male flowers are on the uppermost bud and form buds between the leathery bracts. The fruits grow in a bunch. The fruit is square and angular, 8-13 cm long and 2.5-5.5 cm in diameter. The skin is very thick, strong ...

Spinyhead sida (Sida acuta)

Galunggang or common wireweed or spinyhead sida ( Sida acuta ) is a plant species in the Malvaceae, erect herbaceous, cylindrical stems, branched, dense, green, white-haired, growing in forests, agricultural land, waterways and roadsides. S. acuta has alternately seated leaves with stalks much shorter than blades. Leaves are simple in shape, lanceolate to linear, rarely ovate to oblong, length up to 10 cm, width up to 7 cm, obtuse at base, taper at apex, margins serrated and widely spaced. Small flowers, disc-shaped, grow in the axils, diameter up to 2 cm, 2-3 items in a cluster. Centrally jointed stalk, no epicalix, complete, bisexual, regular, actinomorphic, hypogynous, pentamer and yellow. Sepal five-part, gamosepalous, campanulate, slightly accressed, persistent, valvate. Petals five-part, polypetalous but slightly connate below and connected by staminal columns, crooked. Stamens numerous, monadelphous, arranged in staminal columns. Stamina column shorter than calyx, divided ...