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Eucalyptus
Description:
Eucalyptus trees can grow on the barren soil, soil and can sprout again after the fire. This plant can be found from lowlands to 400 m above sea level, can be grown near the beach behind the mangrove forest, swampy ground or forming a small forest in of dry to wet soil.
Trees, 10-20 meter tall, bark layered, colored grayish white with peeling skin surface is irregular. The trunk is not too big, with branches that hang down. Single leaf, a bit thick as leather, short-stemmed. The leaf blade elliptic or lancet, 4.5 to 15 cm long, 0.75 to 4 cm wide, tapered tip and base, flat edge, the veins are almost parallel. Leaf surface-haired,
the color green-gray to brownish green. When squeezed or crushed smell of eucalyptus oil.
Plural inflorescences grain shape, such as a bell-shaped flowers, the petals of white color, yellowish white anthers. branching out in the end.
Fruit 2.5-3 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, its color is light brown to dark brown
Seeds smooth, very light as the chaff, yellow color. The fruit is a traditional medicine called perforated pepper .
There are several varieties of eucalyptus trees. There is a red colored wood, and there are white. Rumphius distinguish the varieties of eucalyptus leaves large and small leaf varieties. Small leaf varieties, which are used to make eucalyptus oil.
The leaves, through a distillation process. will produce essential oils called eucalyptus oil, the color yellowish to greenish. Propagation with seed or root buds.
Curable Disease:
Rheumatism, enteritis, diarrhea, rash, cough, fever, flu, headache, toothache, eczema, pain in the bones and nerves, weak not excited (neurasthenia), insomnia, asthma.