Information About Water Spinach Ipomoea Aquatica (Kangkung)

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Information About Water Spinach (Kangkung)

Information About Water Spinach (Kangkung)- Water spinach or 'Kangkung' (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.) Is a type of plant that includes vegetables and planted as food. Kale are sold in the markets. Kale is widely available in the region and is a plant that can be found almost everywhere, especially in the watery area.

The popular cuisine by the Water spinach in Indonesian is 'ca kangkung bumbu tauco atau terasi'.

There are two forms of spinach sold in the market. The first is slick and leafy kale arrowhead shaped, 10-15 cm along. This plant has a hollow stem that extends to the intermittent leaves and stems uprise at the base of the leaf. This plant produces colored pale green and white colored flowers, which produce a bag containing four seeds. The second type is the long narrow leaves, usually composed of three pinnate.

Information About Water Spinach or Kangkung

Cultivation 
Kale cultivation is divided into four groups of cultivars. Kale rice (Lowland Group) is a group of the best known, grew wilder in shallow marshes and rice fields were abandoned. It is traditionally eaten people. The next group is a landline or kale Alba Group, once known as Ipomoea reptans Poir. but the name is now considered invalid. Landline leafy kale narrower and more adaptive to the dry land, so it can be planted in fields or even the garden. The next group is the purple leaved spinach or Rubra Group. This group leaves and flowers have red or purple pseudo, leafy little wide but also adaptive to dry land. The last group is the dried kale or Upland Group, known in Cantonese as puzzled choi hon.

Production
There are two types of planting cultivated: dry and wet. In both, a large amount of organic matter (compost) and water is needed so that these plants can thrive. In the dry planting, kale planted at a distance of 5 inches on the boundary and is supported by a wooden prop. Kale can be planted from seeds or roots cutouts. He is often planted in seedling before it was moved in the garden. Kale leaves can be harvested after 6 weeks he planted.

If used wet planting, a 12-inch piece planted in the mud and left wet. During the growing kale, drowned in the wet area at stage 6 inches and the water flow gently used. The water flow is then stopped when the soil should be loose. Harvesting can be done 30 days after planting. If the plant shoots plucked, a branch of the edges of the leaves will grow back and can be harvested every 7-10 days.

During flowering, kale shoots grow slowly, but plowing and harvesting tends to promote more leaf produced.

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