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Have you ever heard the name of the Ciplukan or Ceplukan fruit plants? The fruit is a fruit that is quite popular and is often found in children in the 90s and before. Now Ciplukan seems to be starting to get a little bit rare because it began to erode. Ciplukan or in the Latin name Physalis Angulata this is a kind of small fruit, which when ripe the fruit will be covered by the enlargement of the flower petals. This fruit is also known by various regional names such as cecenet or cecendet, nyurnyuran, kopok-kopokan, leletopan, dedes and others.

Born and raised in the 90s or the previous era, it certainly will not be foreign to this fruit of ceplukan, because in the villages it is a natural fruit that grows wild and can be obtained for free or free! This fruit is mostly found in community gardens or in rice fields, roadside, forest edges, mountains and areas which are illuminated by the sun.

Ceplukan plant itself is a seasonal crop in the form of a bush, with a height of ± 1 meter. The stem is green, massive, hairy and has a segment. The leaves are single leaves, oval shaped, pointed edges of leaves, flat leaf edges, hairy leaf surfaces, pinnate leaves. Leaf length between 5-25cm, leaf width between 2.5-18cm. Leaf stalks are green with a length of 1-9cm.