Hazelnut (Aleurites moluccana)

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Hazelnut (Aleurites moluccana), is a plant whose seeds are used as a source of oil and spices.
This plant is still sekerabat with cassava and included in the Euphorbiaceae tribe. In interstate commerce known as Candleberry, Indian walnut, and Candlenut. The tree is referred to as the varnish tree or kukui nut tree. The oil extracted from the seeds are useful in the industry to be used as a mixture of paint.

It is not known precisely its origin, these plants spread from India and China, passing through Southeast Asia and the archipelago, to Polynesia and New Zealand. In Indonesia, the pecan is known by many names. Among them, kembiri, gambiri, hambiri (Bat.); Kemili (Gayo); Kemiling (Lamp.); kareh fruit (fruit hard, Mink .; Nias); keminting (Day.). Also muncang (Sd.); De re right, pidekan, miri (Jw.); Re Kame, Kome RE, ME RE (Md.)
Large trees; with a height of *0 m and gemang up to 1, 5 m. Bark gray, slightly rough berlentisel. Young leaves, twigs, and wreaths decorated with dense star hair, short, and a silver-colored butter; as if sprinkled with flour. From a distance the tree canopy is visible whitish or silvery.

Single leaves, alternate, dark green, long-stemmed up to *0 cm, with a pair of glands at the end of the shaft. Leaves almost circular, round eggs, round or oval eggs menyegitiga, up to *0 cm in diameter, with the base of the heart shape, reinforced menjari leaves only at first, bertaju **5 triangular shape at the end.

Panicle inflorescence thyrsoid located in the terminal or in the armpit end, **- *0 cm long. The flowers are unisexual, white, short-stemmed. Female flowers are on the tip of the panicle additional umbrella; male flowers are smaller and first bloom around him, were more numerous. Bertaju petals **3; crown shape lanceolate, bertaju*5, *- 7 mm long in male flowers, and *- *0 mm in female flowers. Stone fruit slightly flattened ovoid, **6 cm × **7 cm, olive green outside with velvet hair, fleshy whitish, not break, drupe*2 or 1. Hard-seeds and thick, slightly flattened, up to 3 cm × 3 cm; with pieces of whitish seeds, rich in oil.