Almost all Indonesian peoples who love outdoor activities knew that Begonia is delicious and used it as survival food. The sour taste of root, stem, leaves, and flower of Begonia is very famous and popular to become one of the wild edible plant in Indonesia.
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Talking about edibility parts, root, and other underground plant organs, actually it becomes important food for Indonesian peoples. A lot of edible roots we can found in every place in Indonesia.
Botanically, the underground part of plants distinguishes as root and non-root. True root called taproots (main root usually larger than branch root), fibrous (all root has the same size), and adventitious root (form from any part of plants than root). And non-root itself is an underground part of plants, such as bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers.
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Aloe vera benefits for food and medicine have known for a long time ago in many civilizations. Indonesian peoples use Aloe vera for hair treatment and some medicinal functions. As information, Lidah buaya is Indonesia’s name for Aloe vera. Commonly, the plants grew in the garden and backyard as ornamental plant. The benefits of Aloe vera compounds besides as antiviral agent also reported effective as anti-oxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-helminthic, antifungal, and antimicrobial.
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Talking about Urticaceae family is always special for me. I live for more than 20 years in west java and some species from Urticacea always become one interesting topic during discussions with peoples who lived in West Java. Oreocnide rubescens is species which include in the list of edible flowers in Indonesia.
(more…)always love to learn from nature. Passionate on studying plants in some aspects: the DNA, Identification, propagation, and their uses
Talking about basic human need related to the plants is always interesting. In my opinion, we can focus only in 2 main topics, which is edibility and usability. Then we can breakdown each topic for further discussion. The importance of plants for supporting our life was known from ancient period. It continues along with the human history it self.
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Part of the lesson from the covid-19 pandemic this year is to make us aware of the importance of mastering the basic life skill knowledge to support our life. One of them is the knowledge on how to identify edible wild plants. Its skill is one of the basic abilities that everyone must-have.
(more…)always love to learn from nature. Passionate on studying plants in some aspects: the DNA, Identification, propagation, and their uses