Drymonia turrialvae Hanst

Drymonia turrialvae, known in North Sumatra as lidah kebo jantan, is native to Central and South American regions such as Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama, but is also found growing wild in the forests of the Karo Highlands. The Karo people have long used this plant as an ingredient in the distinctive Karo oil or liniment to maintain body health, including addressing body aches, colds, and speeding up wound healing.

Lidah kebo jantan lives in shaded forest habitats at elevations approaching 1,360 m, so its area is wet and cool. Prefers shaded environmental conditions.

• Stem cylindrical to somewhat square, succulent, red to purplish in color, hairless to spiny.
• Leaves arranged distally on the stem, similar within each pair, 9-37 × 5-23 cm, ovate to suborbicular, glabrate on both sides, generally pink to purple below.
• Flowers numerous, dense, with reduced pedicels. Bracts (1-)2-2.5 cm, oblong, leafy, conspicuous, sometimes alternating with leaves, with pedicels 8-50 mm, calyx purple, glabrate, lobes 15-33 mm, ovate, acute to acuminate at the tip, margin inconspicuously toothed. Corolla flat against the calyx, white with or without purple at the mouth, 40-65 mm, ± funnel-shaped, purple.
• Fruit a berry, unlike the capsule found in most Drymonia spp., lavender to purplish in color, 1 cm in diameter.

Propagation is done generatively using seed.

Information not found. Further research is needed.

Treats body aches, colds, heals wounds, dries and treats burned skin, strengthens bones in babies, treats broken bones.

Dilah kerbau.