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The teak tree with the Latin name Tectona grandis is a tree that thrives in tropical Asia such as Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Myanmar. Reporting from Wood Assistant, Tectona grandis is a species of tropical hardwood tree from the flowering plant family (genus) Lamiaceae. Teak trees can grow about 40 meters with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 meters. Teak trunks produce hard, water-resistant, oil-containing wood so they can avoid rotting caused by fungi and bacteria. Sukriati Andesti Lamanda in his thesis Morphological Analysis of Teak (Tectona grandis Linn. f.) (2018) states that teak trees have large leaves of about 60 to 70 cm multiplied by 80 to 100 cm.
Teak trees have small, colorful flowers that grow at the ends of their branches. Teak flowers can produce reddish-green fruit with a diameter of 1 to 1.5 meters. In addition to towering tree trunks and large leaves, teak has other special characteristics. Namely, teak trees shed their leaves during the dry season. The larger the leaf surface area, the greater the evaporation that occurs in the stomata. In the dry season, large evaporation will cause trees to lack water. The purpose of teak trees to drop their leaves during the dry season is to drop their leaves during the dry season to reduce evaporation. This is a form of adaptation of teak trees to survive in dry soil due to drought.