palm

Palm (also known as palm trees or tal) is a type of palm that grows in South Asia and Southeast Asia. In many areas, the tree is also known by names like lonta (Min.), ental (Sd., Jw., Bal.), Taal (Md.), dun tal (Sas.), jun tal (Sumbawa ), tala (Sulawesi), lontara (Toraja), lontoir (Ambon). Also manggita, manggitu (Sumba) and old (East).B. flabellifer a floral identity of South Sulawesi province.The leaves are used as a craft and script writing media ejection. Craft items made from palm leaves, among others, fans, mats, hats, various baskets, fabrics for clothing and sasando, traditional musical instruments in the East.A good kind of fiber can also be generated by processing the stalk and leaf midrib. These fibers are in the past is quite widely used in South Sulawesi to weave a rope or make skull cap, a sort of local headgear.Wood from the outside of the rod ejection of fine quality, heavy, hard and blackish in color. The wood is often used as a building material or for making tools and handicrafts.Bouquet of flowers from the (mainly female flowers cob) tapped the palm sap.This sap can be boiled into sugar or a legend or fermented into wine, a kind of alcoholic beverage made by the people.The fruit is also consumed, especially the young. The young seeds are still soft, so the shell, clear and watery soft (actually a liquid endosperm) in the middle. It feels like a fro, but better. Soft seeds that are often traded on the roadside as the "fruit of palm" (nungu, Tamil language). There is also a palm seed is cut in small squares for a mixture of iced drinks are commonly found dawet sale palm coast area of ​​East Java, Paciran, Lamongan. Dawet flavor iced drinks are delicious as palm sugar sap extracts derived from the original.Old fruit flesh, a yellowish and fibrous, can be eaten fresh or cooked first.Yellowish liquid was taken from him also to be a mixture of snacks and cakes, or to be made into jam.