Thorny palm

is a kind of palm plant, with the usual fruit eaten. Cool language in English is called snake fruit, because the skin is similar to snake scales.
It is called palma, because the plants are barely trunked. The characteristic of this plant is many spiny, creeping and multiplying, growing into a tight and strong clump. Stems radiate below or above the ground, forming rhizomes, often branching, diameter 10-15 cm.
Salak more used fruit. Besides eaten fresh, salak is also commonly made sweets, pickled, canned, or packed as bark chips. Meanwhile, on the snails umbut can be eaten. Leaflets and leaflets can be used as woven material. Salak fruit, has a good content for the health of the boy.