wine_palmEnglish

Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar, leaves used for thatching and weaving

English: palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer

Bahasa: siwalan, rontal

Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula, sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago

English: wine palm, jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, toddy palm, Caryota urens