Plants Pidada (Sonneratia) is a kind of swamp dwellers tree by the river, and part of the mangrove vegetation, Locally, this tree is often referred to as stripping. The ecology of these plants live in areas with a muddy tide, and the swamp.Facing extreme environments in the mangroves, plants adapt to a variety of ways. Physically, the most typical of mangrove vegetation to grow organs for survival. As various forms of roots and salt glands in the leaves. But there are also other forms of physiological adaptation as well as Pidada (Sonneratia), growing roots of breath (pneumatophore) arising from pekatnya mud to take oxygen from the air. So these plants can still grow in the muddy forest area.
This plant can grow to a height with 5-20 Meter, with a structure composed of stems, roots, stems, twigs, leaves, flowers and fruit. Small to large-sized trunk, at the end of the stem there is a growing branch spread. Single leaves, opposite, round or elongated inverted eggs, 5-13 cm × 2-5 cm, with the base of the wedge shape and rounded or blunt tip. Petiole short and often reddish. Interest alone or in groups of up to 3 buds at the end of twigs. Petals bertaju 6 (rarely 7-8), pointed, 3 to 4.5 cm long with similar petal tube shallow saucer underneath, green on the outside and greenish or yellowish white in it. Corolla red, narrow, 17-35 mm × 1.5 to 3.5 mm. Benangsari very much, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, white with red base, quickly fell out. Pistil stalk big and long, stay up long. Fruit spherical buni seedy flat, green, 5 to 7.5 cm in diameter and 3-4 cm tall, sitting on a nearly flat petals Taju. Yellowish pulp, sour salty, foul-smelling. (Wikipedia.org)Pidada plant can be utilized for food, the leaves are still young can be processed into a mixture of vegetables and dishes, and fruit that are old can be utilized as a beverage, fruit juice is taken by raw materials and making syrup Pidada. One of the central production of fruit drinks are pack Akhmar Pidada he started making syrup this Pidada plainly since 11 years, until now the products he has marketed to jambi province and surrounding areas. other than that the wood of this tree can also be Pidada not benefit as firewood, because the wood is of poor quality and have a solid fiber, so it is difficult to utilize Pidada wood as raw material for furniture.
Plants Pidada has great benefits tehadap surrounding environment, especially the coastal environment. Indirectly Pidada plants and other mangrove plants to prevent erosion and abrasion of tides, besides that this plant will be a place to live marsh animals, such as crabs, shrimp, shell fish, and others. But if the forest Pidada or more in managed mangrove forests properly it will provide economic value to local people, by making the mangrove forest one of the resorts.
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