Wednesday, June 13, 2012

buah talok (cherry)


Cherry or  Talok is the name of the fruits are small and sweet can reach 12 m, but generally the tree is only about 3-6 m. These trees are always green and continuous flowering and fruiting throughout the year. the tree have horizontal branches, hanging on the end; forming a leafy shade. Smooth-haired twigs mixed with glandular hairs, as well leaves. the leaves lie flat, alternate; leaf blade is not symmetrical round eggs lanceolate, serrated edges and pointy, the size of the leaves are about 1-4 × 4-14 cm, below the gray-haired meetings; short-stemmed. Flowers contain 1-3 (-5) florets, located in the armpits rather on the upper leaf growth; long-stemmed; androgynous ; in petals, Taju tapered thread form, smooth-haired; crown flat-brimmed, round eggs upside down, thin white, bald, lk. 1 cm. Stamens numerous, 10 to more than 100 pieces. Flowers that bloom stand out, to the leaf blades; a long-stemmed fruit Buni, almost perfectly round, 1 to 1.5 cm diameter, yellow-green when young, and finally red when ripe, crowned with the rest of the stalk buds that do not fall five black stars similar angle. Contain several thousand tiny seeds, smooth, yellowish white; immersed in flesh and sweet juice.

Cherry/ Talok wood soft and easy to dry, very useful as firewood. Easy to peel the bark is used as a rope and cloth napkins. The leaves can be used as a kind of tea.

as food for fruit-eating birds, such as merbah and chilies bird, and types of bats. Cherry seeds are not digested by birds so both groups also functions as scatter the seeds.

Cherry/ Talok trees are particularly useful as a shade tree on the roadside. This small tree is often grown as a seedling initially logging on the curb, gutter, or cracks appear in the middle of the floor wall or fence, and eventually grow quickly, are usually self, growing as shade trees. Because that's cherry tree is often found in urban areas and densely crowded, on the edge of the sidewalk and parking lot, on the banks of the river are not neglected or in places where the usual prolonged dry.

Due to the properties and durability, the cherry one pioneer plants found in areas of human settlements in the tropics. Originating from tropical America (southern Mexico, Caribbean, Central America down to Peru and Bolivia), cherry was brought into the Philippines in the late-19th century, and then quickly spread throughout the tropical regions of Southeast Asia.

The classification of Talok/ Cherry are:
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliaphyta
Class: Magnoliapsida
Order: Malvales
Family: Muntingiaceae
Genus: Muntingia
Species: Muntingia calabura

                            Image. The fruit, flowers, leaves and tree trunks Talok (Muntingia calabura).

Cherry/ Talok fruit  per 100 grams contained:
water (77.8 grams), protein (0.384 grams), fat (1.56 gram), carbohydrate (17.9 grams), fiber (4.6 grams), ash (1.14 g), calcium (124, 6 mg), phosphorus (84mg), Iron (1.18 mg), carotene (0.019 g), tianin (0.065 g), ribofalin (0.037 g), niacin (0.554 g) and vitamin C content (80.5 mg).
The resulting energy values ​​are 380KJ/100 gram. The cherry leaf  used as a traditional medicinal plant  as a headache and anti-inflammatory in Peru.

In the cherry  has been research that these plants include:

A. Antiseptic

Content and was able to cherry leaf decoction a dangerous microbe and used as anti-septic. From research can be used to kill bacteria C.Diptheriea, S. Aureus, P vulgaris, S and K Epidemidis Rizhophil on experiments conducted in vitro

2. Antiflamasi

Cherry decoction of the leaves also have anti-inflammatory reduce inflammation (antiflamasi) and also lower the heat, these data from animal studies using mice as a research object

3. Antitumor

The content of flavonoid compounds contained in the leaves have turned cherry can inhibit cancer cell growth (mouse hapatoma) by laboratories that conducted by scientists from peru.

4. Anti Uric Acid (Gout)

In Indonesia cherry fruit has been traditionally used to treat gout by eating a cherry for 9 items 3 times a day. It is proven to relieve pain caused from gout page.

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