What is Caryota?

Caryota, or fishing palm, is a genus of the Palm trees of the Arecaceae family containing about 13 species originating in parts of Asia and Australia. Many members of this family are large high trees capable of reaching 100 feet (30 m) and the width of the canopy of more than 10 to 15 feet (about 3 to 4.6 m). Generally, people call a fish palm plant because Bipinate leaf resembles the bottom fins of the fish. One of the most popular palm trees in Caryota is C. Urens called Palm Wine, Toddy Palm or Jaggery Palm. Some growers use many parts of this palm and, as the name suggests, can produce wine or alcoholic beverage called toddy or jagges, type of sugar, sweet palette. Some palms have regularly distributed leaf scar rings indicating a suitcase. If something Mars Mars the Soft White Fuzz on the Tkmen from the palm of the wine, the brand will take the palm of your palm. In general, dark green, wedge -shaped leaves are about 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 m) long and about four inches (10 cm) wide.

In the wild, the palms grow to 60 to 100 feet (about 18 to 30 m). In the continental US, the plant usually reaches less than a third of this height and gardeners often grow some species in containers. C. Mitis is an invasive species in some parts of Florida in the US. Gardeners in tropical and subtropical areas of the world generally increase them.

Caryota Palms carry flowers in the axils of the leaves in very large clusters or flowering clouds that resemble the tail of horses. Palms flower usually for several years. They are monocarpian, which means that after flowering there are trunks bearing flowers, and if it has a single suitcase, the plant will die. Treesters have suction cups from trunks usually survive, but the flowering trunk dies. The transplant voltage can cause premature transition of the palm to the flower phase.

In addition to the decorative garden plant, the Caryota Palms provides some commercial products such as sugar, fiber and sago.In India, people extract edible starch of stems and people usually eat palm hearts. Fuzz gathered from young leaves can become a fire cover and ripe leaves can function as a roof thatch or is woven into household objects. Many natives turn the fibers of the leaves into rope and the seeds turn decorative beads. In general, there are very few palm trees not to use.