Exudate-producing plants collection of Cibodas Botanical Garden and its uses

Abstract

Muhaimin M, Nurlaeni Y. 2018.Exudate-producing plants collection of Cibodas Botanical Garden and its uses. Pros Sem NasMasy Biodiv Indon 4: 151-157. Cibodas Botanical Garden (CBG) is one of the ex-situ plant conservation institution that focuses onconservation of ever wet mountain area. Currently, the plant collection of CBG reached to 1934 species and 9194 specimens. Thesespecies have a number of uses, such as for food sources, natural dyes, building materials, and medicines. One of the uses of plantscollection of CBG that has not been explored properly as an exudate-producing, whereas exudate from plants is known to have manybenefits. Therefore, inventory of exudate-producing plants collection of CBG and their potential uses are carried out. The studied arefocus only on resins, latexes, and gums exudate, since all of them are commonly known and most widely utilized by humans. The resultsshow that CBG has collected 27 families and 188 species of resin-producing plants, 13 families and 128 species of latex-producingplants, and 11 families and 18 species of gum-producing plants. Some of these species have been known to be beneficial, such as formedicine, food, ritual ceremony, and textile. In addition, there are 26 species exudate-producing plants collection that has threatenedstatus based on the IUCN Red List, so as conservation effort need to be prioritized. This data is expected to further increase the value ofplants collection of CBG and stimulate further research and development of exudate-producing plants collection in CBG.