Chad (central), Sudan (central and south, especially southern Darfur and southern Kordofan): fruit (drupe) eaten by sucking the juicy fibres. It is described as tasting acid and bitter. The hypocotyl, ...

Borassus Relief From Many Diseases : The tall palm tree and its green leaves not only look beautiful, but they also hold ...

India (Madras Presidency): fruits, leaf-buds (or ‘cabbage’) and fusiform roots eaten; (Bombay Presidency): roots eaten; (Rajasthan): fusiform roots, fruits and leaf buds eaten. A cooling drink, Neera, ...

Pitched as having over 800 uses, the Palmyra Palm (or Borassus) is recognized as one of the most important trees in Cambodia and India. Earlier this year, Indian born architect Bijoy Jain of ...

Our guide Henry tells us the Borassus palms are a legacy of the slave trade when fruit seeds were discarded by slaves on their long march to Zanzibar where 40,000 arrived each year. Livingstone ...

Pohon lontar [Borassus flabellifer Linn.] terkenal dengan beragam manfaatnya. Di Indonesia, lontar setidaknya punya 56 nama lokal. Ini juga sejalan dengan beragam manfaat lontar, bahkan dijuluki ...