RATTAN TAMAN | Calamus caesius Blume

Some areas call it Sega Huwi rattan, and Sesah is the Kalimantan area, Sega rattan (Aceh), Segeu rattan (Gayo), Sego rattan (West Sumatra), Sega benar/Segafruit rattan (Malay). The natural place of growth is in dry areas, dry lowlands to hills. This type has also been cultivated for a long time by the people of Central Kalimantan who live in the Mentaya river, Katingan river, Kahayan river, and several other areas. This plant grows in clumps, in each cluster there can be up to 100 stems with the length of each mature stem reaching 50 meters or more.
With the following characteristics:
  1. The stems are yellowish green and turn yellow and shiny when they are stripped and dry. Stem diameter between 4-11 mm, segment length 15-30 cm.
  2. The leaves are pinnately compound, with elongated lanceolate leaflets and the color of the lower surface of the leaflets is typically chalky white and the upper parts are shiny green. In addition, the tip of the child leaves curved upwards. The length of the following leaves is cirrus 0.5 – 1.25 m.
  3. Sheath overgrown with rather short triangular thorns.
  4. The fruit is oval in shape, up to 1.5 cm long. The fruit skin is scaly, green in color and will turn yellowish brown when it is ripe.
  5. Garden Rattan is a raw material for the purposes of making rattan mats and raw materials for making wicker
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