Sugar palm is a common name for several species of
palmsArecaceae or Palmae , the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales...
used to produce
sugarSugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many...
. Species so used and named include:
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Sugar palm is a common name for several species of
palmsArecaceae or Palmae , the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales...
used to produce
sugarSugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many...
. Species so used and named include:
- Arenga pinnata
Arenga pinnata is an economically important feather palm native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the east...
(syn. A. saccharifera)
- Borassus
Borassus flabellifer, the Asian palmyra palm, Toddy palm, Sugar palm, Cambodian palm, is robust and can live 100 years or more and reach a height of 30 m, with a canopy of leaves several dozen fronds spreading 3 meters across. The large trunk resembles that of the coconut tree and is ringed with...
- Caryota urens
Caryota urens is a species of flowering plant in the palm family from Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and India where they grow in fields and rain-forest clearings. The epithet urens is Latin for 'stinging' alluding to the chemicals in the fruit. They are commonly called solitary fishtail palm, toddy palm,...
- Cocos nucifera