Kemuning originates from Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar, and then spread to areas including China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia. It is often utilized as a medicinal plant, hedge plant, and ornamental plant. Its flowers have a pungent aroma and can be used to provide fragrance in tea. Additionally, it produces essential oil that can be used as a perfume.

Grows up to an altitude of 400 meters above sea level. Its growth does not require excessive sun exposure and it is not drought-tolerant. It usually grows wild on the edge of forests or in home yards. It prefers fertile clay soil with an acidic to alkaline pH.

• Stem: Hard, grooved, without thorns.

• Leaves: Compound, spirally arranged, with stalked leaflets, opposite, oval or oblong, pointed tip and base, smooth, shiny, green margin.

• Flower: Compound, in the form of a raceme, fragrant, white, with a pungent, bitter, and warm taste. It emerges from the leaf axils or branch tips.

• Fruit: Fleshy berry, round-oblong, green when young, orange to red when ripe, containing 2 seeds.

• Propagation: Through seeds, layering (cangkok), and stem cuttings. Seed selection from seeds comes from fruit that has turned dark red.

• Lowers blood cholesterol, remedy for dysentery, diarrhea, intestinal worms, swelling, improves blood circulation, rheumatism, reduces fever, treats urinary tract infections, and has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-obesity properties.

• Murrmeranzin, isopropylidene, murrangatin, muralonginal, pranferin, coumarins, alkaloids, scopolamine, heptamethoxy, flavonoids, saponins, tannins.