Perhaps many people are already know the term, but some people really know about horticulture yet.
Horticulture comes from the Latin word "hortus" (garden plant) and "cultura / colere" (cultivation), so it can be interpreted as cultivated plants around the house or garden.
Nowaday horticulture is often used to refer to several types of plants that can be cultivated.
So the process includes breeding, tissue culture, harvesting, packaging and distribution. Horticultural systems are often used in modern agricultural processes. Horticulture is divided into several types namely fruit plants, decorative plants, Vegetable corps, medicinal plants.
Type of Horticultural Crops
Vegetable Plants
Vegetables are plants that contain high water content and can be consumed both in fresh and after processed. Vegetable is a kind of plant that is not foreign anymore. Even in your own environment vegetables are easy to find. This is because vegetables are one of the staple foods to be used as food.
In general, vegetable crops are divided into 2 kinds, namely vegetables that are seasonally planted and vegetables are grown on an annual basis. Seasonally vegetables can only be done during certain seasons.
Plants that grow in certain seasons such as onions, garlic, carrots, kale, radish, cabbage, and tomatoes.
Annual vegetables are vegetables that can be planted throughout the year without being tied to the environment or season type. Plants like this can live in all weather
Fruit Plants
Fruit plants are all crops that grown and can be harvested for fruits. This plant is a seasonal plant because it is not every time fruitful.
Types of fruit crops generally can live several years more than ten years until start to decreasing productivity and quality of fruit.
In addition, there are also types of fruit plants that can only bear fruit once in a period of plants, such as watermelons and melons.
Examples of these fruit plants such as oranges, apples, mangoes, durian, and grape.
Now there is still much wrong in classifying between fruit and vegetable crops, such as squash, cucumber, eggplant, and tomatoes.
To distinguish between fruit and vegetable crops located at the age of the plant. Fruit plants generally have a relatively longer lifetime than vegetables.
Although there are vegetables that have a fruit-like shape, but do not have a long period. That's how to distinguish between the two kind of plants.
Decorative plants
Ornamental plants is a type of plant that is not to be consumed the results but to be taken uniqueness and beauty.
This type of plant can be sold and enjoyed because the beauty. Ornamental plants commonly used for cultivation are plants that have been tested in terms of beauty, shape, and benefits.
Ornamental plants have a primary function to add aesthetic value to a plant or to a room and a garden.
Ornamental plants are divided into several types such as Flowers, ornamental plants, that has beautiful leaves, and ornamental plants with attractive stems.
Flower ornamental plants are ornamental plants that have the beauty or uniqueness of the flowers, such as roses, orchids, jasmine, and frangipani.
Leaf ornamental plants are ornamental plants whose beauty is found in the form of unique and beautiful leaves both in terms of color, style and shape, such as anthurium, aglonema, puring, and bougainvillea.
Ornamental plant stems are ornamental plants whose aesthetic value is contained in unique stems and different from other types of plants, such as bonsai, mini cactus, and some types of bamboo.
Medicinal plants
Medicinal plants are plants that have benefits and functions that can be used to cure diseases or in the prevention of disease.
There are many types of plants that can be used as a drug, such as ginger, turmeric, god leaves, soursop leaves, and betel leaf.
Medicinal plants commonly used can be derived from medicinal plants that grow wildly or are intentionally planted.
Medicinal plants are also one of the most important ingredients in herbal medicine products.
Plants that become herbal medicine is the result of the extraction of the plant. The use of medicinal plants can be by drinking, inhaled, or taped so that the benefits can meet the concept of cell receptor work in receiving chemical compounds or receptors.
Plants that become herbal medicine is the result of the extraction of the plant. The use of medicinal plants can be by drinking, inhaled, or taped so that the benefits can meet the concept of cell receptor work in receiving chemical compounds or receptors.