Know about the Wild Areca Palm

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Wild Areca Palm Quick Facts
Name:	Wild Areca Palm
Scientific Name:	Areca triandra
Origin	Tropical and subtropical Asia – India, Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, and southeast Asia – Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia.
Colors	Green to brown or orange-red
Shapes	Ellipsoid narrowing to a beaked tip, up to 2.5 cm long

The species can attain the height of 30 feet. Trunks are green in new parts and grayish in older parts, thin and elegant and not more than three inches in diameter which is encircled with widely spaced whitish circles of leaf base scars. Crownshaft is smooth, green, barely bulging at base and about 3 to 4 feet high. The leaves resemble betel nut palm. Leaves are dark green with large fused terminal leaflets and generally no more than six leaves per trunk. Palms are monoecious having both male and female flowers in each inflorescence and latter emerges from beneath crownshaft. Blossoms are tiny, fragrant, greenish white producing clusters of 1 inch wide which is followed by ovoid and brownish orange to reddish orange fruits.

Wild Areca Palm Image Gallery

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Traditional uses

Mix the Wild Areca Palm seeds with pepper Piper betel leaves, gum and lime. This is used to stimulate saliva flow, suppress hunger, accelerate heart and perspiration rates and offer protection against intestinal worms.

Culinary uses