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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...