Study of morphological characters of java tea, (Orthosiphon stamineus Benth)

Cat's whiskers or known as java tea is a herb plant. Scientific name of java tea is Orthosiphon stamineus. The origin of Orthosiphon is Eastern Asia, now it is widely grown in all tropical areas. The morphological characteristic of the herb cat's whiskers are straight wet bars often as wood, height can reach 1.5 m. This plant can grow to a height of 700 above sea level. It features long white or blue flowers with long stamens (cat's whiskers) over glossy mid-green foliage. Leaves are ovate sharp jagged edges rough and irregular. This plant is perennial herbs or subshrubs. Roots often thickened woody. In this study of morphological characteristics of java tea, Tunjung where it has produce more branches and this will produce more leaves. Tunjung also produce longest length of leaves whereas the widths of leaves are same among another place.