Areca mandacanii

Heatubun

Ngafa

ArecaceaeFruit

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit - masticatory

The fruit are used as a masticatory (chewing preparation).

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It grows between the swamp forest and the lowland rainforest on the Bird's Head Peninsula in Western New Guinea.

Asia, Indonesia, Papua, SE Asia,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A palm. The trunk is 15 m tall. It is 8-10 cm across. The internodes on the trunk are 13-30 cm long. They are dark green and shiny and the scars are white. There are 8 leaves in the crown. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. The leaf sheath is tube shaped and 90 cm long. The leaves are 200-250 cm long. The fruit are 6-7 cm long by 4.2-4.5 cm wide. They have a disk shaped depression near the tip. The seeds are 2.8 cm long by 2.5 cm wide.

References (1)

Heatubun, C. D. et al, 2012, A monograph of the betel nut palms (Areca: Arecaceae) of East Malesia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 168, 147–173

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