CLASSIFICATION :
Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta (vascular plants)
Super Division: Spermatophyta (produce seed)
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida (dashed two / dikotil)
Sub Class: Rosidae
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Genus: Swietenia
Species: Swietenia mahogany (L.) Jacq.
PLANT DESCRIPTION :
Mahogany is a perennial crop, with an average height of 5-25 m (some even reaching over 30 m), rooted riding with round rods, branching many, and gummy wood. The leaves are compound leaves form, even pinnate, leaf blade oval, tapered tip and base of the leaf, the leaf margins flat, bone pinnate leaf length 3-15 cm. Young leaves are red and after dark is not magic, turns green. Flower plant mahogany is compound interest, arranged in a bouquet out of the armpit leaves. Mom flowers cylindrical, light brown. Petals off one another to shape like a spoon, green. Petals cylindrical, brownish yellow. Stamens attached to the crown. Anthers white / golden brown. This mahogany new plants will bloom after the age of 7 or 8 years. After flowering, the next step is fruitful. The fruit is a fruit box with a mahogany oval shape notched five. When the fruit is still green cute, and after a big brown. Inside the fruit are flat-shaped seeds with the tip of a little thick and the color is dark brown. Fruits are very old elderly aka fruit leather will break by itself and flattened seeds that are free floating where the wind blew. When the match fell to the ground will grow into a new generation of mahogany plants.
utilization:
Mahogany plants are found at the edges of the road as a shade tree. The tree is a great fit for the shelter. Besides, because of its heat resistance / life on arid land that plants adorn the side of the road remained in some areas. For residents of Indonesia especially Java, the plant is not new, since the Dutch colonial era mahogany and colleagues, asan trees, many planted by the roadside as a shade especially along the Daendels (from Merak to Banyuwangi). And since the last 20 years, the plant began to be cultivated for its wood mahogany has a high economic value. Quality hard wood and very good for meubeler, furniture, carved items and handicrafts. Often also made a ruler because it is not easily changed. The quality is a little below the mahogany teak so often dubbed as the belle of the second. For an old mahogany wood maroon. There are several types of small-leaved mahogany is mahogany (Swietenia mahogany) and broad-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophilea). Swietenia mahogany wood quality better than Swietenia macrophilea. While excess Swietenia macrophilea is faster and grew into a large wooden plate. Other uses of the plant mahogany is used to dye leather clothing. Fabrics are boiled with mahogany skin will be yellow and wantek (not faded). While sap mahogany called blendok also be used as raw material for glue (adhesive), and mahogany leaves for fodder.
Utilization of mahogany as the drug has been since the 70's. Taken is the seeds. At the time of consumption is a simple way (without being processed) is to swallow the seeds immediately after throwing a flat section. It is said that many diseases that fled after being treated with this mahogany seeds. But many complained of a bitter taste. Today, in line with the slogan back to nature, treatment with ingredients from nature began much ogled. Humans began to more creative work materials from nature to be used as medicine. Mahogany seeds as raw material for medicinal dried first then finely ground into powder.
See you again with other types of wood
source : various sources
