Tamarind

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Tamarind Descriptions


Tamarind is a kind of fruit that tastes sour, commonly used as bumbudalam many Indonesian dishes as flavorings or flavor enhancer dalammakanan acid , for example in acid or vegetable broth pempek (Indonesian traditional food). Tamarind sometimes java generated by tree called scientific
Tamarindus indica , belongs to the tribe of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae) which is the only species in the tribe bermargaTamarindus.

classification :

Kingdom                                 : Plantae
Division                                   : Magnoliophyta
Class                                        : Magnoliopsida
Order                                       : Fabales
Family                                     : Fabaceae
Subfamily                                : Caesalpinioideae
Nation                                     : Detarieae
Genus                                      : Tamarindus
Species                                    : T. indica
Binomial name                        : Tamarindus indica L.


morphology :

General: big-boned acid tree, its leaves are always green and everything will fall during the spring tiba.Ketinggian tree can reach 30 m and a diameter at the base of the trunk up to 2m. The bark is grayish brown, rough and break, grooved- vertical groove. Shady and dense leafy canopy, wide and rounded.
Leaves : Leaves even pinnate compound , 5-13 cm long, is alternate, with leaves like ribbons tapered fulcrum, whitish pink. Narrow oblong leaflets, 8-16 pairs, each measuring 0.5-1 × 1 to 3.5 cm, flat -brimmed, sloping and rounded base, rounded tip notched sampaisedikit.
Flowers : Flowers are arranged in loose bunches, in the armpit or in ujungranting leaves , up to 16 cm in length. Butterfly with flower petals crown dandaun 4 pieces 5 pieces, fragrant. Whitish yellow crown with urate-uratmerah brown, to 1.5 cm.
Fruit : The fruit pods are bulging, almost cylindrical, bent or straight, to 10 grain seed, often with a constriction between two seeds, fruit skin (eksokarp) hardened scaly brown or gray, with veins and clay - hardened uratyang similar thread . Fruit pulp (mesocarp) kehijauanketika white young, becoming red-brown to black when very ripe, sweet and sour cling. Seeds dark brown, shiny and hard, somewhat square.

Habitat : Tamarind including tropical plants. In many places yangiklim and appropriate land will thrive, including in Indonesia, this plant grows wild in the forests as whole leaves and can grow well savana. Pohon acid up to a height of about 1,000 m above sea level, on sandy or sticky clay soil, especially in area clear and dry season is long enough.

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