Etlingera Elatior (Honje) From Zingiberaceae Family

Etlingera elatior (name of Indonesia is Kecombrang), kantan, or honje is a affectionate of assemble plants and an anniversary plant-shaped assemble that flowers, fruits, and seeds are acclimated as raw vegetables. Other names are kincung (Medan), kincuang and sambuang (Minangkabau) and Siantan (Malaya). Thais alarm kaalaa. In Bali alleged kecicang while adolescent stems alleged Bongkot and both can be acclimated sambal (sambal matah).

Etlingera Elatior (Honje)

The characteristics of the stems, leaves, and flowers
Honje brownish accessory plants such as banana-pisangan. If the block is old, the anatomy of plants like amber or galangal, with a acme of up to 5 m.

Trunks bogus gilig round, continued at the base; grows cocked and lots, audacity by jowl, basal clumps rare, out of the rhizomes that advance underground. Rhizome thick, cream-colored, reddish-jambuan if he was young. Leaves 15-30 strands abiding in two rows, alternate, in the pseudo-stem; brand blade egg-shaped oblong, 20-90 cm × 10-20 cm, with a angled abject or affection shapes, bouncing edges and a cone-shaped tip short, baldheaded spots but with bland and tight, agleam green, generally with the basal ancillary of the purplish if young.

Bouquet of flowers in the anatomy of a top, a long-stemmed 0.5-2.5 m × 1.5-2.5 cm, with blade ellipsoidal shape, 7-18 cm × 1-7 cm, blush to ablaze red, fleshy, arced about-face if the bloom. The petals anatomy a tube, 3-3.5 cm long, bertaju 3 split. Crown tube shape, pink, up to 4 cm. Similar labellum spatula, about 4 cm in length, ablaze red with white or chicken edges.

Fruit awash into about all-around bulge bore of 10-20 cm; anniversary atom admeasurement of 2-2.5 cm, smooth-haired abbreviate on the outside, blooming and about-face red if ripe. Seedy, aphotic brown, covered with coated seeds (arilus) clear-cut white or brownish that aftertaste sour.

Benefits
Kecombrang or absorption honje mainly acclimated as a admixture or additive assorted dishes in the archipelago. The annual is generally acclimated as a bloom or above and eaten with chilli booze in West Java. Kecombrang aflame is aswell generally acclimated as allotment of pecel Banyumas. In Pekalongan, cautiously broken ​​kecombrang acclimated as an additive for megana, a affectionate of balm fabricated from adolescent jackfruit. In Malaysia and Singapore, kecombrang become an capital additive in affable laksa.

In Tanah Karo, adolescent honje bake-apple alleged cekala acid. Annual buds and "pods" it became a basal allotment of Karo vegetable acids; aswell be black the ambiguous odor if affable fish. Batak cuisine popular, arsik goldfish, aswell use this cekala acid. In Palabuhanratu, bake-apple and shoots central honje generally acclimated as a additive admixture to adore broiled sea fish.

In South Sulawesi, plants and bake-apple honje referred to as "Patikala" as condiment for angle sauce, chicken or Pallu Mara and aswell dishes Kapurung in Luwu breadth and condiment assorted types of vegetables a affectionate of ointment. This bulb buds believed to cure annoyance with broiled / burnt and captivated its contents.

Honje aswell be acclimated as a soap in two ways: anon rubbed bogus axis honje to the physique and face or the brand midrib mememarkan honje to avenue ambrosial cream that can be anon acclimated as soap. This bulb can aswell be acclimated as a antidote for skin-related diseases, including measles.

From rhizomes, the Sundanese access a chicken dye. Brand sheaths are alloyed into a bogus stem, in the accomplished aswell acclimated as capacity wicker; ie afterwards getting candy through dehydration and assimilation several times over several days. Pseudo-stem is aswell the basal additive of cardboard were absolutely good.