Cempaka yellow has a bitter taste and smells aromatic. Some of the chemicals contained in yellow cempaka include flying oils, palmitin, resins, resin acids, alkaloids, tannins, resins, and tannins. The pharmacological effects of yellow cempaka include tonic, febrifugum, aromatics, pengelat, increase appetite and many other uses.
Classification of Cempaka Kuning Plant (Michelia Cempaca L)
-Kingdom: Plantae
-Division: Magnoliophyta
-Class: Magnoliopsida
-Order: Magnoliales
-Family: Magnoliaceae
-Genus: Michelia
-Species: Michelia cempaca L
-Indonesia name: yellow cempaka
-The characteristics of the Cempaka Kuning Plant (Michelia Cempaca L)
Tree, height 15-25 m. End of haired twig. Leaf round egg shape lanceolate, with tip and base pointed, 10-28 times 4.5-11 cm, thin as skin. The former leaf rest on the petiole is longer than half of the petiole. Flowers stand alone, orange, fragrant sanget smell.
Flower tent leaves are 3-5 cm long, the deeper is narrower and more pointed than the outermost. At the base of the flower in the shape of a pole, the fruits and stamens are clearly separated by a space. The fruit will be more than 20, stuffed, flat, hairy, each with a lot of seeds.
Fruit shape elongated ball, slightly crooked, first green, then pale gray, covered with pimples. The deep red ripe seeds hung out on the longitudinal bundle. From India, in Java is grown for its flowers. Below 1,200m.