PURWODADI BOTANICAL
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Founded in 1941 for the study of plants growing under relatively dry conditions, lie about
30 kms northeast of Malang, just off the Surabaya to Malang main road. They cover an
area of about 85 ha (212 acres).
City Purwodadi research is a large garden(kebun raya purwodadi)
City Purwodadi research is a large garden, located in the province of East Java, Indonesia. Width reaches 85 hectares and has around 10,000 species of trees and plant collections.
History
Purwodadi botanical garden was established on 30 January 1941
by Dr. L.G.M. Baas Becking the initiative of Dr. D.F. Van Slooten on
30 January 1941 as the Experiment Station of the expansion of S'Lands
Plantentuin or Buitenzorg Garden Raya Bogor. This garden is one of
the three branches of the City of Indonesia (Kebun Raya Bogor) who
each have specific tasks and functions. The two other branches are
Cibodas City and City Eka Karya Bali. Management of the entire City
is under the responsibility of the Indonesian Institute of Science.
At first this garden for plantation crops research activities. Then
in 1954 began to apply the basics of Cinemas is to start making
plot-plot plant collections. Since 1980 part of the plant re-styled
according to ethnic group that adopted the classification system
Engler and Pranti. Branch development is expected in Central City
will become the center Purwodadi conservation research plants and dry
climate in the tropics.
Collection
Tree and Tumbuhan
pod-polongan
Classified into 3
tribes, namely Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, and Papilionaceae. There
are 157 species from 70 genus is included in these tribes. Various
kinds of pod-polongan used as ornamental plants such as species of
the genus Amherstia, Brownea, Cassia, Senna, and Saraca. In addition,
several types of wood are also used for the building as Sonokeling
(Dalbergia latifolia) and Wangkal (Albizia procera), Does the plant
and roadside such as Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus), Akasia (Acacia
auriculiformis) and Soga (Peltophorum pterocarpum). There are also
used as a medicinal plant, such as Venus (Senna siamea), Kedawung
(Parkia timoriana), Dadap srep (Erythrina subumbrans), and chicken
Dadap (Erythrina orientalis).
Anggrek
Placed in the
greenhouse conditions that are tailored to the natural habitat. There
are about 2344 natural orchid specimens consisting of 319 species, 69
genus, and 277 still sp .. About 7 types of orchid is endemic, such
as East Java Appendicula imbricata, Dendrobium arcuatum,
Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum (anggrek slippers), and others.
Meanwhile, the threatened existence in nature, among other
Ascocentrum miniatum, Phalaenopsis amabilis (anggrek days), Coelogyne
pandurata (black orchid) Kalimantan origin and others.
Palem
Included in the palm family Arecaceae and is the oldest
species that have been found since Cretaceus era, approximately 120
million years ago. Arecaceae is very interesting in terms of botany,
of the beauty, diversity and type of usage. Family Arecaceae
estimated 200-300 in the world around 2000-3000 genus and species in
the tropics and sub tropics. Indonesian palm diversity is the center
of the world, from a palm tree in the world that there are 46 among
the genus (576 species) are found in Indonesia and 29 is a palm
endemic genus. (LBN-LIPI, 1978; Witono, 1998; Sharma, 2002; Chin,
2003). As one of the plant conservation institution ex-situ, City
have a job Purwodadi carry inventory, exploration, collection and
planting low maintenance plants that have value dry of knowledge and
potential to collected (conservation). City Purwodadi of 845,148 m2
have 174 families, 904 genus and 1896 species with some 60
collections Arecaceae family 117 and 435 types of individuals based
on catalog 2006 (Suprapto et al., 2006).
Bamboo
About 30 types of bamboo have been collected Purwodadi City,
16 species are from Java, Maluku's 2 types, 2 types of Sulawesi, and
10 species from several Asian countries (China, Japan, Thailand,
India, and Burma). Gigantochloa manggong (Bamboo Manggong) is a
bamboo endemic East Java, Gigantochloa lear (pring lear) are often
used for furniture, handicrafts or house roof, Dendrocalamus asper
(pring petung) rebungnya to eat, and Schizostachyum silicatum (pring
wuluh) for flute.
Paku
This collection styled under
the shady trees and large, because the plant requires a moist and
shady. The collection reached 60 species, 36 genus and 21 tribes.
Paku Diataranya Sarang Burung (Asplenium nidus), Suplir (Adiantum
trapeziforme), Paku Hata (Lygodium circinnatum), and Paku Tanduk Deer
/ Simbar Menjangan (Platycerium coronarium). There are several
benefits of drawing plants, including vegetables as (Athyrium
esculentum), ornamental plants (Asplenium sp., Adiantum sp.), Drugs
(Equisetum debile), media anggrek (Cyathea contaminans), and craft
materials (Lygodium circinnatum).
Drugs
Located in
the plot and VA G XIV, styled in such a way to work as a garden to
enjoy. Among the collection is Pace (Morinda citrifolia), fruit and
cough medicines for high blood pressure, leaves purple (Graptophyllum
pictum), leaves for hemorrhoid medicine, Widoro upas (Merremia
mammosa), umbinya for diabetes drugs, Sembung (Blumea balsamifera)
leaves for asthma medication, heart disease, Wudani (Quisqualis
indica) leaves to helminthic and others.
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