Purwodadi Botanical Garden

Purwodadi Botanical Garden is a garden located in a large study Purwodadi, Pasuruan , East Java , Indonesia . The extent of 85 acres and has about 10,000 species of trees and plant collections.
 

History

 
Purwodadi botanical garden was established on January 30th 1941 by Dr. Lourens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking on the initiative of Dr. Dirk van Slooten Fok on January 30, 1941 as a division of the Experimental Station 's Lands Plantentuin Buitenzorg or the Botanical Garden . This garden is one of the three branches of the Botanical Gardens Indonesia (Bogor Botanical Gardens) which each have specific tasks and functions. Both of the other branch is the gardens Cibodas and Eka Karya Bali Botanic Gardens . Management of all the Botanical Gardens are located under the responsibility of Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

At first the garden was used for plantation crops research activities. Then in 1954 began to apply the basics of the commencement of manufacture patches of plant collections. Since 1980 some plants were reorganized according to ethnic groups who embrace and Pranti Engler system of classification. Branch development is expected in the Botanical Gardens Purwodadi Hall will become conservation and research center of the dry climate plants in the tropics.

 

Trees and Plants Collections

Legumes

 
Classified into three tribes, namely Mimosaceae , Caesalpiniaceae and Papilionaceae . There are 157 species of 70 genera belonging to these tribes. Various types of beans used as ornamental plants such as the types of genera Amherstia, Brownea, Cassia, Senna, and Saraca. In addition, several types of wood are also used for buildings such as rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia) and wangkal (Albizia procera), and green plants such as roadside Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus), acacia (Acacia auriculiformis) and Soga (Peltophorum pterocarpum). Some are used as medicinal plants such as Johar (Senna Siamea), Kedawung (Parkia timoriana), Dadap srep (Erythrina subumbrans), and chicken Dadap (Erythrina orientalis).
  

Orchid

Placed in a greenhouse where conditions adapted to their natural habitat. There are about 2344 natural orchid specimens consisting of 319 species, 69 genera, and 277 are still sp .. About 7 species are endemic orchid East Java as Appendicula imbricata, arcuatum Dendrobium, Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum ( Slippers Orchid ), and others. While that is endangered in the wild include Ascocentrum miniatum, Phalaenopsis amabilis ( orchid months ), Coelogyne pandurata ( black orchid ) from Borneo and others.
 

Palm

Included in the palm family Arecaceae and is the oldest species that have been found since the time of Cretaceus, approximately 120 million years ago. Arecaceae is very attractive in terms of botany, the beauty of its shape, species diversity and usefulness. Family Arecaceae in the world is estimated to 200-300 genera and 2000-3000 species scattered around the tropics and sub tropics. Indonesia is the world's center of diversity of palm, from the palm in the world there are 46 genera (576 species) found in Indonesia and 29 genera are endemic palms. (Ibn-LIPI, 1978; Witono, 1998; Sharma, 2002; Chin, 2003). As one of the institutions ex-situ conservation of plants, the Botanical Gardens has the task of carrying out an inventory Purwodadi, exploration, collection and maintenance of planting lowland dry vegetation that has a value of science and the potential for collection (conserved). Botanical Gardens area of ​​845 148 m2 Purwodadi has 174 families, 904 genera and 1896 species with a collection of some 60 genera Arecaceae 117 species and 435 individuals based on catalog 2006 (Suprapto et al., 2006).
 

Bamboo

About 30 species of bamboo have been collected Purwodadi Botanical Garden, 16 species are from Java , two types of Maluku , two species of Sulawesi , and 10 species of Asian countries ( China , Japan , Thailand , India , and Burma ). Gigantochloa manggong (Bamboo Manggong) is an endemic bamboo East Java, Gigantochloa lear (lear Pring) is often used for furniture, crafts, or roof of the house, Dendrocalamus asper (pring petung) rebungnya to eat, and Schizostachyum silicatum ( bamboo wuluh ) for flute.
 

Nails

Collection of ferns arranged under large, shady trees, because these plants love the shade and damp places. The collection reached 60 species from 36 genera and 21 tribes. Among these birds nest spikes (Asplenium nidus), maidenhair ferns (Adiantum spp.), hata (Lygodium circinnatum), and nail antlers / simbar deer (Platycerium coronarium). There are some other useful collections of ferns, such as nails vegetables (Athyrium esculentum) of edible shoots, Asplenium sp. and Adiantum sp. as ornamental plants, horsetail Equisetum debile as a medicinal, Cyathea contaminans as a growing medium of orchids, and hata Lygodium circinnatum as a craft.
 

Drugs

Located in the plot XIV G and VA, arranged in such a way as to serve as an attractive garden to be enjoyed. Among his collection is Pace (Morinda citrifolia), men to cough and high blood pressure, purple leaf (Graptophyllum pictum), leaves for medicine hemorrhoids , Widoro upas (Merremia mammosa), tubers for medicinal diabetes , Sembung (Blumea balsamifera) leaves for drug asthma , heart disease , Wudani (Quisqualis indica) leaves for medicine and other worms.