Asian nut bearing palms

The regions to which cycads are restricted probably indicate their former distribution in the Pangea before the supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana separated. Philippines, Polillo Island, The date palm is dioecious , having separate male and female plants. As a step towards this goal, we present here an account of the genus in East Malesia, the area in which the genus is least well known and most poorly understood. The arrangement of leaflets is varied in Areca but, in most species in East Malesia, the leaflets are irregularly arranged regular in some specimens and arrayed in the same plane, except for A. Complete generic level phylogenetic analyses of palms Arecaceae with comparisons of supertree and supermatrix approaches.

Chestnuts are high in carbohydrates and make wonderful flour for baked goods. Klapertart is the famous Dutch-influenced dessert from Manado, North Sulawesi , that uses young coconut meat and coconut milk. Mayan have benefited from the plants healing properties. Much research is also called for.