Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm
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Article by: Ravikumar Uppaluri Palm family is unique in the aspect that most of its members have muli purpose benefits to the mankind, unrivalled by few other trees. , Deer Ticks There are several palm , Tips for Preparing a Planting Bed species such as Borassus, Areca, Sago, Fish , Unifying and Separating Landscaping Planting Beds Tail etc. Because of their beautiful , Flowers For U structure, many of the palms , Choose the Right Outdoor Bench that Suits Both You and Your Garden adorn gardens. , Granite Flexible Preformed Rock Ponds Though pal trees , Create the Perfect Patio: Finding Great Furniture grow very tall, they can also be raised in home , How to Plant Shrubs gardens or as dwarfs in pots. , Unifying and Separating Landscaping Planting Beds One of the most important palm trees , Benefit from the Expertise of a Landscaping Contractor is the Sugar palm. , Teak Outdoor Benches- Fantastic Seating for Your Patio and Garden Botanically known as Borassus Flabellifer; it is widely distributed in the tropics such as India, Srilanka, South East Asia, New Guinea etc. People from temperate regions are not much aware of this palm , Gardeners Gift Ideas and hence are not privileged as people of tropics in appreciating the multi fold benefits of this palm. , Teak Outdoor Furniture The tree , Seeding a Lawn grows upto 30 meters in height, with separate sexes. The female trees , Gardening on a Budget bear edible fruits , Palm Trees of about 20 cm diameter. Over a lifecycle starting from fruit , Palm Trees to tree, , Seeding a Lawn the sugar palm , Caring For Tropical And Exotic Flowers or toddy palm , Butterfly House in the Flower Garden provides six types of edible portions at different stages. The immature or unripe fruits , Hibiscus Flowers contain 2-3 locules, and the locules contain a hydrolyzed carbohydrate which is very tasty. (Called 'munji' in Telugu language). On maturity the carbohydrates convert to hard starch and this starch is not edible. The locules are in hard shells, which are covered by fibrous material, and this fibrous material which was earlier greenish-whitish in color , Seeding a Lawn and tasteless, accumulates sugar and turns orange-red juicy fibres. This sweet orange juice with characteristic flavor (fruit at this stage called 'tati pandu' in telugu), is mixed with flour and baked into cakes. If the ripened fruit , Create the Perfect Patio: Finding Great Furniture is left untouched, the fruit falls , Bonsai trees Mastery - Different styles in Bonsai Gardening to the ground and the seeds , How to Get Ideas for Designing Your Garden (or locules) generate a peg geotropically into the soil. , Flowers For U The seed, , What You Need To Know About Pruning Bonsai Trees which has hard starchy material, gets again hydrolyzed into sugars and takes the form of semi solid white , Flowers For U mass (the seed , ing a Lawn on ground with peg into the soil , Solar Garden Lights at this stage is called 'burra gunju' in telugu). If this stage is not disturbed, the hydrolyzed starch gets transferred through the peg inside , Designing Your Garden to Attract Hummingbirds the soil , Vegetable Growing for Beginners and forms a cotyledon. Once the transfer of sugars is complete, the cotyledon which measures 1-2 cm in thickness and 15-25 cm in length and of conical shape is again edible (this stage is called 'tega' in Telugu). If this stage is also not harmed, the cotyledon gives rise to a new palm. , Trees While the earlier edible stages namely munji, tati pandu, burra gunju and tega are derived from fruits, , Benefit from the Expertise of a Landscaping Contractor there are two other edibles that can be derived from the reserve material stored near the apical bud , Garden Ponds of the tree. , The Hosta – A Shade Loving Perennial The reserve material which sustains the growth of the tree , Tips for Preparing a Planting Bed and much helpful in reproductive stage, is very sweet and looks like a cylindrical white , Tulip Divisions - Garden Tulips and Their Identities portion with several layers. The inner the layer, the sweeter it is (this cylindrical sweet portion is called 'muvva' or 'movvu' in Telugu. The sixth edible derived is called the toddy ('kallu' in telugu) is derived from this apical bud, , Lawn Care Information by making an incision. From this incision, the liquid food , Grow the BEST Tasting Tomatoes material that is part of the plant's translocation is tapped and this is an intoxicating and energy , Injury to Trees and Shrubs giving drink. Apart from the edible uses, there are several other benefits which man has been using since time immemorial. The leaves are used for thatching and making mats. The leaf stalks have tough fibers, which are twined to make tough ropes for building , Bonsai trees Mastery - Different styles in Bonsai Gardening of houses, , How to Plant Shrubs boats, etc.The dried shells, leaf stalks are used as fuel. The trunks are used either as live poles in construction of thatch sheds, , The Value of Mulch or as timber , Vegetable Growing for Beginners in replacement for wooden , Mulch Your Spring Flower Bulbs in the Fall for a Beautiful Spring Display poles.The trunk of the tree , Mulch Your Spring Flower Bulbs in the Fall for a Beautiful Spring Display is hollowed, and is directly used as a boat (called 'dhone' in telugu) for travel and fishing in many parts of the tropics. Thus the Sugar Palm , Flowers, An Annual Event or Palmyra Palm , Seeding a Lawn or Toddy Palm , How to Get Ideas for Designing Your Garden is unrivalled even in the palm , Step by Step 'Leaf' Stepping Stones family, for the multi-fold benefits it offers in its life time at different stages.Apprecating this Indian's give it the status of 'son' for it takes care of them single handedly even in hard times.Ravikumar Uppaluri hails from Kaikalur, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh State in India.The famous Kolleru bird , Create the Perfect Patio: Finding Great Furniture sancturay, a fresh water , Designing Your Garden to Attract Hummingbirds lake that attracts birds , The Hosta – A Shade Loving Perennial from as far as Siberia, is located near Kaikalur. Kolleru lake once vast , beautiful , Benefit from the Expertise of a Landscaping Contractor and sheltering scores of birds , How to Get Ideas for Designing Your Garden and other animals is on the verge of extinction. The author Holds a Masters degree in Agricultural Sciences and is cofounder of an organization involved in Nature , Bamboo Plant Information and Care conservation and sustainable development. The author can be reached at uravikumar@yahoo.com. |
  
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