Eurycoma longifolia
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Eurycoma longifolia is a species of plant that belongs to the bitter ash family(Simaroubaceae). It is native to Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines , Thailand , Myanmar , Vietnam , Cambodia, and Laos .
Common names for Eurycoma longifolia in different languages are: malaysian penawar pahit , penawar bias , bedara merah , bedara putih , lempedu pahit , payong ali , tongkat baginda , muntah bumi , petala bumi , tongkat ali and pasak bumi ; Indonesian bidara loud ; Javanese babi kurus ; Vietnamese cây bá bệnh , cây bá bịnh ; lao tho nan ; thai hae phan chan , plaa lai phuenk and phiak .
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Vegetative characteristics
Eurycoma longifolia grows as a shrub or small tree in primary and secondary forests to heights of usually 12 to rarely up to 15 meters. They grow with little or no upright branches.
The leaves are mostly concentrated like an umbrella on the tips of the branches. The 45 to 80 centimeter long leaves are pinnate unpaired. The 20 to 30 pairs of leaflets that are opposite each other are leathery and narrowly elongated.
Generative characteristics
Eurycoma longifolia is dioecious separate sexes ( dioecious ), with female and male flowers on different specimens. The many flowers appear in large, branched, paniculate inflorescences , 50 to 60 centimeters long . The five-fold flowers are hairy glandular. The five petals are purple-crimson. The female flowers have an ovary with a style that ends in a five-lobed stigma, and large staminodes . The male flowers contain five fertile stamens and a sterile pistil. The main flowering period is from June to July.
The egg-shaped stone fruit , 1 to 2 centimeters long and 0.5 to 1 centimeter in diameter, is initially green and later, when it has ripened, dark red. The fruits mainly ripen in September.
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- Datasheet from the International Center for Science and High Technology of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization . (Section description)
- Lai Keng Chan, Tiing Sai Su & Chris KH Teo: A Preliminary Study on the Germination of Eurycoma longifolia Jack (Tongkat Ali) Seeds , In: Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science . 25 (1), 2002, pp. 27-34: PDF-Online.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eurycoma longifolia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
- ↑ Eurycoma longifolia Jack at the International Center for Science and High Technology . ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
