Scientific Names
Spondias pinnata (L. f.) Kurz.
Region Name
Sunda: Kadondong
Java: Kedondong
Madura: Kedundung
Bali: Kacemcem
Bima: Inches
Napier: Karunrung
Bugis: Dau Kaci
Botany
Synonym: Spondias Mangifera Willd, Evia amara Comm.
Classification
Division: Spermatophyta
Sub Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Nation: Sapindales
Tribe: Anacardiaceae
Marga: Spondias
Type: Spondias pinnata (L. f.) Kurz.
The characteristics
Habitus: A tree, height ± 20 m.
Trunk: Upright, rounded, woody, smooth surface, branching simpodial, greenish white.
Leaves: Compound, oval, menyetrip odd, scattered, base tapering, pointed tip, pertulangan pinnate, flat edge, 5-8 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, green.
Interest: Compound, panicle shape, in the armpits and at the end of the branch leaves, 24-40 cm long, petals + 5 cm long, purple, eight stamens, yellow, crown four to five, oblong, yellowish white.
Fruit: Bunni, oval, fleshy, ± 5 cm in diameter, fibrous, yellowish green.
Seeds: Round, coarse fibrous rough, yellowish white.
Roots: riding, dark brown.
Chemical Ingredients
Leaves, bark and root bark contain kedondong saponins, flavonoids and tannins.
Property
Bark amra efficacious as a remedy dysentery, and leaves for cough medicine.
To cure dysentery used + 5 grams of fresh bark amra. washed and cut into pieces, boiled with 2 cups water for 25 minutes, after the cold filtered. Filtered drinking water as well.
