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| Baobab or Bottle Tree Plant (Adansonia Digitata) |
Description of the Baobab Tree
Baobab plants are tree plants that usually live wild in the forest, and sometimes also planted in gardens, yard houses and other places. Latin name of baobab plant is Adansonia Digitata. While in English the other name of this baobab plant has a baobab name, dead rat tree, monkey bread tree, upside down tree, and cream of tartar tree. According to the history of the origin of this baobab plant originated from the African Continent. The spread of this baobab plant from Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Congo, Zaire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Sao Tome, PrÃncipe Island, Annobon Island, Java (Indonesia), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Jamaica, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Seychelles, Madagascar, Comoros, India, Yemen, Oman, and China. The physical features of this baobab plant have large tree traits with large lower trunks and the top of the shrinking rods like bottles. These baobab plants can live for a thousand years more and are resistant to drought. The function and usefulness of baobab plants for some people is used for fruit, and seeds, as well as ornamental plants because the stems have a unique shape. In African society this baobab plant is considered a sacred tree. But what we rarely know this baobab plant can actually be used as an herbal medicine treat various diseases that exist in the body.
Classification Of Plants Baobab
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Viridiplantae
Superdivision: Embryophyta
Division: Tracheophyta
Subdivision: Spermatophytina
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Malvales
Family: Bombacaceae
Genus: Adansonia
Species: Adansonia digitata L.
Anatomy and Morphology of Baobab Plants
The baobab plant is one of the plant species of the flowering plant family (Bombacaceae). The baobab plant is a tree plant that grows upright where its size can reach about 5-25 m. The baobab shaft is smoothly shiny, grayish-brown, the branching is not too much, the rootstock is big and the upwards will become smaller as bottles, the stem diameter can reach 1-14 m, the baobab stems can absorb a lot of water when it rains for Stored and used during the dry season. The roots of the baobab plant are tap root roots and the branches are similar to the more subtle capillary roots. Leaves of bamboo leaves of digitate leaves are shaped like hands gathered 5-7 leaves, with leaf size 5 cm × 12.5 cm, long baobab leaf stems long. Flower plants baobab solitary flower hanging or tinged white with a size of about 20 cm, with 5 petals, sweet-scented. The fruit of a large baobab-shaped egg-sized capsule is more than 12 cm in size, the fruit consists of hard skin covered with brownish-yellow hair. Seeds of oval-shaped oval-shaped baobabs like brown textured kidneys. Cultivation of this baobab plant breeding using seeds. Habitat of live baobab plants in dry bush, forests, wooded meadows, with plenty of sunshine and little rainfall.
All parts of the plant
Baobab Plant Content
The baobab plant has flavonoids, phytosterols, amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Fruit has 10 times vitamin C of citrus fruits, calcium, phosphorus, carbohydrates, fiber, potassium, protein. Seeds contain enough amounts of phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, sodium, iron, manganese.
Benefits and Benefits of Baobab Plant for Health
- Skin baobab plant to treat anemia, wounds.
- Dried fruits of baobab plants are efficacious for curing bronchial asthma, and skin infections.
- Meat fruit baobab useful to reduce heat and quench thirst.
- Baobab seeds are useful as a medicine for diarrhea, dysentery, hiccups in children.
- The baobab plant is used as an antimicrobial drug.
- Baobab plant to treat malaria pain.
- Baobab plant as a natural antioxidant.
- Baobab plant is useful for treating diabetes.
- Baobab plant efficacious as an antiviral drug.
- The baobab plant is used as a remedy for rheumatic pain.
- Baobab plant for poisoning prevention.
Pregnant and lactating women are not recommended for taking baobab herbs.
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