Common names (English):

Elephant's palm, Fish-tail palm, Indian sago palm, Jaggery palm, Toddy palm

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Southern India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Use: Beverage/Medicinal

Description:

Monoecious stout palms, 16-20 m tall. Leaves bipinnate, 4-6 m long; pinnae 5-7 pairs, to 1.5 m long; leaflets fan-shaped. Spadix interfoliar, shortly peduncled, much branched, pendulous, to 4 m long. Flowers many, in triads with female flower in the middle. Sepals 3, rounded. Petals linear-oblong, valvate. Stamens many. Fruit c. 2 cm across, globose, reddish purple.

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