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Peacock Flower or Caesalpinia Pulcherrina are native plants from Asia and Africa. In addition to beautiful, this plant also has many properties, such as drugs for menstruation that is not smooth, red eyes, diarrhea, canker sores, abdominal bloating and hot spasms in children. For example, for diarrhea, the pears of peach flowers are pounded until smooth and then brewed with warm water. However, pregnant women should not use peacock flowers as a medicine.

Apart from being a drug, the peacock flower can also kill insects because of the hydrogen cyanide (poisonous gas) it has.

This plant can be encountered in the gardens or home furnishings as an ornamental plant.

Chemical content possessed by the flowers is quite a lot, namely tannins, gallic acid, resins, red substances and benzoic acid. In the leaves contained alkaloids, saponins, tannins, glucoside, and calcium oxalate. While in the bark of the wood contained plumbagin, lumbagol, tannins, tannins, alkaloids, saponins, and calcium oxalate. Reproduce this plant is usually done by using the seeds.

Trunk

This plant is a shrub that has a height of 2-4 meters and has many branches. The wood is white and solid.

Leaf

The leaf itself is a compound leaf that has a double and even double-pinnate shape with 4-12 pairs of round-shaped breeds, rounded ends, narrowed base, flat edges, and a green top surface, while the bottom surface is bluish-green with a length of 1 -3.5 cm and a width of 0.5-1.5 cm. At night the leaves will bud.