In the older days, they used to live in a kampung (village) with a vast land. According to my husband, there were pink guava tree (been wanting to plant this tree myself, but couldn't it in the nurseries), guava tree, mandarin oranges tree (orange and green skin as well), jambu air, mango, nona & etc.
So, in our current garden now, it's half a fruit orchard! We have starfruit tree, mango tree, longan tree, papaya tree, limau purut tree, sugar cane, passion fruit, and even an apple tree! But this apple tree has never bear apple fruits before. It has flowered and still is, but we did not see any apples on the trees. We have seen small red fruits before. Probably got snatched and pecked off by the birds coz they have been pecking off my sunflower and wheatgass seeds as well! Seeds were pecked off from the germination trays before they could grow into seedlings! Argh!!
My mother-in-law herself has been planting this shrub called senduduk putih, of which she has been drinking dried flowers' tea. According to her, this plant is like a fairy tree that heals many sickness. But I don't think so! LOL. According to other websites, this plant Melastoma decemfidum roxb./Melastoma Imbricatum, the plant help heal old cough, for children who has trouble in talking, for diarrhea and also for white discharge. There are 2 type of this plant - white flowers or red/pink flowers. But according to my mother-in-law, the white ones are harder to find and has more medicinal values.
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| Senduduk Putih |
Recently, my father-in-law has been craving for green skin mandarin oranges. My mother-in-law said this crave started 2 years ago! But she only told us that last week. It has been hard for us to find the edible fruits for sale in our area. So, my husband and I went to search for the plant in a nursery. Lucky us, they sell it. So, off we went to buy the plant - a new addition to our so-called "Fruit Orchard".
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| Green skin Mandarin Orange |
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