Mirabilisjalapa Linn

Four o'clock Flower
     (Mirabilisjalapa Linn.)

     Synonyms:
     Jalapa congesta Moench. Nyctago hortensis, Bot.

     Familia:
     Nyctaginaccae

Description:
Annual herb, erect, height 20 cm - 80 cm, originating from South America, many people planted as an ornamental plant in the garden or as a barrier fence. Growing up in the lowlands receive sufficient sunlight or in hilly areas. Including interest-kampahan kampah, trunked wet, heart-shaped leaves, dark green color, length 2 cm - 11 cm, width 8 mm - 7 cm, leaf base rounded, tapered tip, flat leaf edge, where the line of sight, has a long petiole 6 mm - 6 cm. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, with many kinds of colors including: red, white, orange, yellow, striped kombinasi/belang-. Blooms in the evening and the bud back in the morning before dawn. The fruit is hard, black, egg-shaped, can be made ​​powder. The tuber skin is brown-black, elongated spherical shape, length 7 cm - 9 cm in diameter and 2 cm - 5 cm, the contents of the white bulb.

Local Name:
Flowers at four (Indonesia, Sumatra); Kembang morning afternoon, a small-time flower (Sumatra); Kederat, segerat, tegerat (Java), Kupa Oras, cako secret (Maluku); Paranggi flowers, flowers parengki (Sulawesi ); At AMPA, turaga, bodoko Sina, what interest tete (Sulawesi); Zi Mo li (China).;

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