Mirabilis Jalapa L.

Scientific Names

Mirabilis Jalapa L.

Region Name

Central Java: Flower at four

Bali: Kederat

Sasak: Noja

Bread: Flowers perengki

East: Flowers ledonosok

Classification

Division: Spermatophyta

Sub Division: Angiospermae

Class: Dicotyledonae

Nation: Caryophyllales

Tribe: Nyctaginaceae

Marga: Mirabilis

Type: Mirabilis Jalapa L.

The characteristics

Habitus: shrubs, annuals, 50-80 cm high.

Trunk: Upright, rounded, smooth, bare, the books grow leaves and branches, white.

Leaves: Single, triangular, 5-8 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, tapered tip, base obtuse, flat edge, pertulangan pinnate, whitish green.

Flowers: Single, the shape of a trumpet, at the end of the rod, six stamens, flat, red, stalk juice curved inward, ± 3 cm long, crown length of ± 5 cm, diameter 1 to 1.5 CRN, patron leaves the bottom into one , triangular, tip bertaju five, yellow.

Fruit: Small, hard, wrinkled surface, ± 5 mm diameter, the inside white and soft, black.

Roots: riding, white.

Chemical Ingredients

Leaves and flower at four contain saponins and flavonoida. besides that leaves also contain tannins and the flowers contain polyphenols. Seeds of these plants contain flavonoids and polyphenols.

Property

Four o'clock flower leaf efficacious as a medicine boils, roots to treat constipation and bloating. Seeds as an ingredient of cosmetics.

For ulcer drugs used ± 7 grams of fresh leaves of four o'clock flowers, washable, plus 1 / 2 grams of salt, crushed and then placed on the boil.