The tree has been outstanding for more than 19 years since I have not entered kindergarten until now where I've worked at age 26 years, the tree still stands firmly beside the mosque near my house. First in a small time, me and my friends like to climb this tree and make it as a tower monitor when we play at war, because in addition to lush making it suitable as a place to hide, this tree also has a small red fruit that tastes very sweet.
Cherry tree its name, in Jakarta, better known by the name of the cherry tree or talok. This tree has several names in other countries like in Malaysia kerukup known as Siam, the Philippines was named datiles, aratiles, or manzanitas. In Spain capulin known as blanco, cacaniqua, nigua, niguito, in England called the Jamaican cherry, Panama berry, cherry or Singapore. While the Latin name of this tree is Muntingia calabura L. Not the kind of cherry tree native to Indonesia, this tree comes from the Latin American region such as southern Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America to Peru and Bolivia, in the late 19th century cherry tree is brought into the Philippines, then quickly spread throughout the tropical regions of Southeast Asia whether it is carried by humans and is carried by animals who eat them.
Cherry tree is not a tree that can grow tall and large, a maximum of only 12 meters tall, but this tree has a canopy width and is usually used as a roadside tree. In addition, in some places the wood used as firewood due to its wood is soft and easy to dry. The bark is easily peeled used as rope and cloth napkins. The leaves also can be used as a kind of tea and used by people in Peru as a traditional medicine headache and anti-inflammatory, in Indonesia cherry fruit traditionally used to treat gout cherry fruit by consuming as many as 9 points 3 times a day it is proven to reduce pain disease arising from uric acid. Cherry is very popular in Mexico, which sold in large quantities in the traditional markets, cherry fruit can also be preserved and made jam as in Sri Lanka.
Cherry tree fruit other than humans is a preferred food for birds and bats. From my monitoring of some birds who like to eat fruit is the bird cherry tree Chili Java (Dicaeum trochileum) a small bird with a size of 8 cm, the male has a red color from head to chest, body colored light gray, black wings and beak while the female body part top while the bottom is brown colored light gray. In addition to Java Chili other birds are fond of this tree eating fruit is Merbah cerukcuk (Pycnonotus goiavier) cousin finch has characteristics similar to the finches are brown wings, gray body with yellow at the bottom of the tail, only the head are different, if the finch has a black head, merbah cerukcuk have characteristics in the eyes of crested and brown stripes. To bat species that often eat the cherry fruit is Krawar Flying-Fox (Cynopterus brachyotis).
These animals take part and help spread seeds of cherry trees to various places, usually because the bird Chili cerukcuk Merbah Java and will take the fruit of cherry and then blackmailed to take the contents of which are in fruit, fruit seeds are not digested in the stomach will be wasted together dirt and grow in locations distant from the parent tree. As with bats, inedible fruit seed attached to the body of the bat when the bat then wash the seeds fall to the ground.
As a result of actions the animals can grow cherry seeds everywhere depending on bird and bat it down where, could be grown in a ditch, river, side of the house and because of the kinds of fruit-eating animals is also a common animal in urban areas such as city of Jakarta, the cherry trees were encountered at the corner-corner of the city of Jakarta and make cherry tree as one of pioneer plants that most often found in human residential areas in the tropics.
So many benefits from a cherry tree in the filling dynamics of life in this world. So is there any cherry trees around your home?
(Adapted from various sources)
Translated from Wikimu