fragrant cempaka flowers fragrant from Aceh

good morning all, I will share a post about cempaka flower or flower of earthquake which is very famous in Aceh.
Flower cempaka perfume (Michelia campacha) or often called bungong jeumpa is a native plant of Aceh. Inspired by this flower, an Acehnese artist created the song entitled Bungong Jeumpa. This song tells the beauty of cempaka fragrant flowers.

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Cempaka perfume is a large perennial green tree. The height of the tree can reach 50 m and the diameter of the trunk is 180 cm. This plant is trunked straight, has a smooth bark rind with a grayish brown color. There are flowers that are white or yellow and have a distinctive aroma. The fruit is brown in small round shape.

Cempaka name comes from Sanskrit. This plant belongs to an ancient plant. Because the fossils of this plant can be traced back to 95 years ago. Cempaka fragrance does not grow in all regions. This plant can grow in the tropics and subtropics, namely in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and South China.

In Indonesia, this plant grows on the island of Sumatra. Precisely in Aceh, cempaka perfume is usually found and planted in the yard of homes, in the temple yard, and in the public cemetery.
Flower Jeumpa or Cempaka Kuning which has a latin name Mechelia Champaka is a wealth of rencong ground flora and mascot for Nangroe Aceh Darussalam, so special that an Acehnese artist made a song titled Bungong Jeumpa to better represent the beauty of this unique flower shape of Aceh this one . Jeumpa flowers grow tall with a size of 3-6 meters, bright yellow flowers, some are cream or white. The size of the flowers is rather large, the strands of the petals are arranged into strands rather, the fruit of this flower is brownish and often used as ingredients to make perfume, you will often find this type of flower on the edge of the forest. It is said that the origin of this flower is from India, which then because the practice of trade to make Indian citizens have to migrate and take pleasure to neighboring countries in the vicinity is what makes Jeumpa flowers then spread to Indonesia.

To cultivate this flower, you just need to plant seeds, it will then grow about 3 months later and start flowering after the plant is about 5 years old. Besides as a fragrant material, sometimes Jeumpa flowers are used as a mixture to make traditional drinks, good news again, this flower is still a lot we meet because the habitat is still thriving and many people who like to plant this Jeumpa flowers to be maintained and dikembangbiakkan to be collected .
so for a while from my post about the jeumpa flower.