Family:
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APOCYNACEAE
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Scientific Name:
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Telosma procumbens Merr.
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Local Names:
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Ampupuyat,
kapas-kapas, pusa-pusa, padpadol, bagbagkong (Ilok.)
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Other Common Names:
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Dugep, dukep (Ilok.);
kapuk-kapuk (Sul.), laknit (Bag.), latok (Tag.)
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Uses:
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In Ilocos Norte, immature fruits are used for viand (dinengdeng,
roasted) and inflorescence for salad, Ilocanos and even Tagbanuas in Palawan
also used this plant with the same purpose as in the Ilocos Region
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Notes:
Kapas-kapas
flowers usually opens during summer and fruits are numerous during the months
of August to December. In Ilocos, flowers and fruits are sold in bunches
during its season of flowering and fruiting. Kapas-kapas flowers under the
dissecting microscope reveals that its flower bears its pollen in pollinia, 5
pair per flower. Each pair of pollinia straddles a stigmatic chamber and
connected via translator arms to the corpusculum. Fruits of this plant are
highly acceptable during the sensory evaluation conducted at the Crop Science
Cluster- Institute of Plant Breeding, UP Los Baños. Proximate analysis of
immature fruits had these results:
89.57% moisture, 0.62% fats, 0.73% protein, 0.59% ash, 1.30% fiber and
170 mgGAE/100g total phenol.
A
sweet pregnane glycoside with 1000 times sweeter than sucrose was isolated
from Telosma procumbens collected
in Vietnam.
On a separate study, leaf extract of Telosma procumbens showed that it has
anti-diabetic property.
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