Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm

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. , Flowers For U There are several palm , Orchid Care - What The Root Tells Us species such as Borassus, Areca, Sago, Fish , Preformed Pond Liners Tail etc. Because of their beautiful , Are You New To Organic Gardening structure, many of the palms , Funniest Pond Stories-Part 1, May 2004 adorn gardens. , How to Plan and Successfully Grow Your Tulip Though pal trees , Flowers For U grow very tall, they can also be raised in home , How To Make Your Own Moss Landscape Rock and Garden Statues gardens or as dwarfs in pots. , Funniest Pond Stories-Part 1, May 2004 One of the most important palm trees , Vegetable Container Gardening is the Sugar palm. , Bedding Plants and Plugs (small plants) 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 , What Is A Black Orchid - Fascinating But Elusive and hence are not privileged as people of tropics in appreciating the multi fold benefits of this palm. , Organic Gardening - A Growing Trend The tree , Specialty s - A Beginner's Guide grows upto 30 meters in height, with separate sexes. The female trees , Funniest Pond Stories-Part 1, May 2004 bear edible fruits , Park Benches - Making the Right Choice of about 20 cm diameter.

Over a lifecycle starting from fruit , How to Plan and Successfully Grow Your Tulip Garden to tree, , Small Garden Bridges You'll Love To Cross! the sugar palm , Types Of Trees or toddy palm , How to Grow Strawberries provides six types of edible portions at different stages. The immature or unripe fruits , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 7) - Hard Water 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 , Lanscaping - Planning Your Next Project 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 , Park Benches - Making the Right Choice is left untouched, the fruit falls , Online Flower Shops to the ground and the seeds , Summer Vacation and Your Pond (or locules) generate a peg geotropically into the soil. , Are You New To Organic Gardening The seed, , Growing A Brush Cherry Bonsai In Your Garden which has hard starchy material, gets again hydrolyzed into sugars and takes the form of semi solid white , How To Make Your Own Moss Landscape Rock and Garden Statues mass (the seed , Riding Lawn Mowers Parts on ground with peg into the soil , How To Make Your Own Moss Landscape Rock and Garden Statues at this stage is called 'burra gunju' in telugu). If this stage is not disturbed, the hydrolyzed starch gets transferred through the peg inside , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 7) - Hard Water the soil , How to Create a Wildflower Garden 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. , Landscape and Outdoor Lighting - Less is Definitely More While the earlier edible stages namely munji, tati pandu, burra gunju and tega are derived from fruits, , The Dangers of Chlorine Free Pool Chemicals there are two other edibles that can be derived from the reserve material stored near the apical bud , Set Yourself Apart: Create Your Own Wind Chime Garden of the tree. , How to Grow Strawberries The reserve material which sustains the growth of the tree , Get your Garden Cooking with Friable Soil and much helpful in reproductive stage, is very sweet and looks like a cylindrical white , The Dangers of Chlorine Free Pool Chemicals 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, , Preformed Pond Liners by making an incision. From this incision, the liquid food , Orchid Flowers material that is part of the plant's translocation is tapped and this is an intoxicating and energy , Summer Vacation and Your Pond 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 , Growing A Brush Cherry Bonsai In Your Garden of houses, , How To Make Your Own Moss Landscape Rock and Garden Statues boats, etc.The dried shells, leaf stalks are used as fuel. The trunks are used either as live poles in construction of thatch sheds, , Growing A Brush Cherry Bonsai In Your Garden or as timber , Park Benches - Making the Right Choice in replacement for wooden , Brighten Your Path By Installing Decorative Landscape Lighting poles.The trunk of the tree , Grey Water- Not Drinking Water- For Your Garden 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 , How to Choose the Most Economical Pond Pump or Palmyra Palm , Set Yourself Apart: Create Your Own Wind Chime Garden or Toddy Palm , Brighten Your Path By Installing Decorative Landscape Lighting is unrivalled even in the palm , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 7) - Hard Water 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 , History of the Adirondack Chair sancturay, a fresh water , Preformed Pond Liners lake that attracts birds , Choosing the Proper Pond Pump from as far as Siberia, is located near Kaikalur. Kolleru lake once vast , beautiful , Riding Lawn Mowers Parts and sheltering scores of birds , Bedding Plants and Plugs (small plants) 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 , Are You New To Organic Gardening conservation and sustainable development. The author can be reached at uravikumar@yahoo.com.

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