garden snake fruit

snake fruit, you must have often seen and also eat it, but if we directly pluck from the tree would be very nice. When I went out to padang sedempuan  Sumatra northern indonesia, I took time to visit the garden snake fruit in the area it.

source wikipedia : snake fruit is a type of palm fruit commonly eaten. He is also known as sala (Min., Mak., Bug, and Thai). In English is called snake fruit, while its scientific name is Salacca zalacca. The fruit is called snake fruit due to his skin like snake scales.

Palma shaped shrubs or hardly trunked, prickly lot, insects, and begat many, growing into clumps dense and strong. Stems creeping below or above ground, forming rhizomes, often branching, diameter of 10-15 cm.

Leaves compound pinnate, 3-7 m long; petiole, stem and leaf child thorny long, thin, the color of gray to black thorns. Kids lancet-shaped leaves with a pointed tip, measuring up to 8 x 85 cm, the bottom side by a layer of whitish wax

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