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Did you know about Chinese ketapan plants? This plant is a nutritious plant as a medicine. As a trade name is known by the name ketepeng china, but this plant has a different name in some areas. In Sumatra (in the Malay area), the Chinese Ketepeng plant is known as the Leaf of Kupang. In the Java area, the Ketepeng cinnamon plant is known by several names. In Sunda known as Ki Manila, in Java known as Ketepeng China, and in Madura known as Kupang-Kupang.

In Maluku this Chinese ketepeng plant is known by two names, that is Kupang Kupang in Ternate and Tabakun in Tidore.

Classification of Plants

The Chinese Ketepeng plant (Cassia alata L.) belongs to the Spermatophyta Division, the Angiospermae Sub Division, the Dicotyledonae Class, the Rosales, the Leuminosae, the Cassia Cassia and the Cassia alata L Type.

#Description of Plants
Plants ketepeng chinese shrubs, with a height of 5 meters. Chinese stems are woody, round-shaped, simpodial, dirty brown. Leaf ketepeng china is compound leaf, pinnate even, children leaves between 8 to 24 pairs. Leaf shape with blunt end. The edges of the leaves are flat, and the base of the leaves is rounded. Leaf length between 3.5-15 cm, and width 2.5-9 cm. Leaf pinnate repetition, short stalk and green leaf color.

Flower Plants

Chinese ketepeng flower is a compound interest, shaped bunches. Flower petals share five, benangsari amounted to three and yellow. The short, orange protective leaf. The flower crown is butterfly, yellow.

#Fruit Plants
Ketepeng fruit is a fruit pod, length can reach 18 cm and width ± 2.5 cm. This Chinese ketepeng fruit when young is green, but at the time of the old color to be brownish black.

#Biji Plant
The Ketepeng seed of China is a pointed, pointed triangle. At the time of youth, this ketapang chinese beans berwrna green, and after the old became black.

#Aklan Plants
The root of the Chinese ketepeng plant is the root of the tunggang, branched, round and blackish.

Chemical content

Cassia alata leaves contain alkaloids, saponins, flavonoids, tannins and anthrones.

#Khasiat
Cassia alata leaf is efficacious as a medicine for scabies and medicine, alaria. For mange drugs used ± 10 grams of fresh leaves Cassia alata, washed and pounded until crushed, then affixed to scabies and wrapped with clean cloth.

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