Jakarta City Of Fruits

Many of the names in the Jakarta area using the name of the plants and fruits are unique. Some of them are pieces that are rarely found in the market. Here's the name of the area in Jakarta which uses the name of the fruit.

1.Kepa

Kepa (Syzygium polycephalum) or kupa or Kupa is a name of a fruit tree Syzygium tribal members. Kepa in some areas also called gohok, kepa (Betawi), kupa beunyeur (Sunda), Kupa, dompyong (Java). Kupa grows wild mainly in secondary forests, between altitudes of 200-1800 m above sea level. Additionally Gowok also planted in gardens planted in the yard and land agroforestry else. Kepa mostly grown for the fruit, are often sold in the market to be eaten fresh, as a salad ingredient, reddish wood, used as building materials or furnishings.

2.Kedoya

Kedoya is a tree has scientific name (Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum). Kedoya the name of a plant of the types of duku-dukuan (Meliaceae) which In English better known as ivory mahagony. Originally from Australia, kedoya tree itself is now difficult to find in the West Jakarta. That said, in the region grow a lot of trees kedoya. However, due to the widening of the area of housing and population growth, compound pinnate leaves of trees which is cleared it up.

3.Kebun Jeruk

Kebun Jeruk it means  Citrus garden. Citrus (Citrus sp.) Is the annual fruit crops that originated in Asia. China is believed as the first place to grow oranges. Since hundreds of years ago, sdh oranges grown in Indonesia, either naturally or cultivated. Citrus crop in Indonesia is a relic of the Dutch people who bring sweet oranges and tangerines from America and Italy.

4.Kemanggisan

Kemanggisan derived from the word “manggis” or "mangosteen" a kind of fruit tree called latin (Garcinia mangostana). Mangosteen is a fruit of a tree crop that comes from the tropical forests that shade in southeast asia region, namely Malaysia or Indonesia blantara forest. Of southeast asia, the plant is spread to Central America and other tropical regions such as srilanka, Malagasy, Caribbean, Hawaii and northern Australia. In Indonesia mangosteen is called by various names such as local manggu (West Java), manggus (Lampung), manggusto (North Sulawesi).

5. Bintaro

Bintaro is the name of the plant that is now often used as a reforestation tree. Bintaro which has the scientific name (Cerbera manghas) is often referred to as sea mango, blind rhino, babuto, and wood octopus. The leaves and fruit contains ingredients that affect the heart, a glycoside which is called cerberin, which is highly toxic.

Well, usually bintaro fruit is used for rat repellent. Besides dangerous, it turns bintaro fruit has benefits for fuel. The inside of the fruit bintaro strands (like oil) and seed. Bintaro fruit seeds contain 35-50% oil content. Oil seeds bintaro certainly can not be consumed. But it can be used as an alternative fuel. Bintaro oil can be used to substitute for kerosene.

How to Treat Oil Bintaro
1. Use fruit bintaro old (red), usually that has fallen from the tree stem.
2. Peel and take the seeds (do not forget to wear gloves, because it is dangerous)
3. Dry the seeds in the sun bintaro
4. Mix dry beans bintaro
5. Perform pressing to get out the oil, then strain and set aside a few nights
6. Bintaro oils ready for use

6.Menteng

Menteng which in Latin is called Baccaurea racemosa are producing fruit. Fruit menteng or kepundung resembles duku with sour taste (sour), sweet. This plant is closely related to Lempaung or Kalampesu. Menteng was famous because President Barack Obama attended here as a child. Even established a memorial statue in front of the school he used to be.

7.Gandaria

Gandaria is the name of the tree and the fruit which has a Latin name (scientific) Bouea macrophylla. Gandaria also the identity of the flora of the province of West Java. used ranging from fruits, leaves, stems up. Fruit Gandaria who are young are often consumed as a salad or sauce mixture Gandaria.

8.Kemang

Fruit similar kemang mango, yellow when it is ripe brown. Kemang named scientific Mangifera kemanga. Fruits issued scents like turpentine. Fruit flesh is yellow, it contains a lot of liquid with a sweet and sour taste. The ripe fruit can be eaten fresh, while the nearly ripe fruit is usually eaten for a mixed salad.

The leaves are still young can be used for salad. Kemang spread naturally in Sumatra, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; and widely cultivated in western Java, especially near Bogor. This plant is mainly spread in the lowlands below 400 m, rarely up to 800 m above sea level. Resistant to this type of flooding, and are often found near the riverbank.

In some parts of South Sumatra there is a myth that if a pile of durian mention combined with 1 piece of Kemang in one night the whole durian fruit will break open mature, the myth also be directly mokad when his head was crushed fruit.