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Palm Arecaceae: Dark brown 1,040 kg/m 3: 1,750 lb/cu yd Throughout India It contains ripe wood in the outer crust. The colour of this ripened wood is dark brown. It is strong, durable and fibrous. Palm is used for furniture, roof covering, rafters and joists. Pine: Pinus spp. Pine wood is hard and tough except white pine which is soft.
In Judaism, the palm represents peace and plenty, and is one of the Four Species of Sukkot; the palm may also symbolize the Tree of Life in Kabbalah. The canopies of the Rathayatra carts which carry the deities of Krishna and his family members in the cart festival of Jagganath Puri in India are marked with the emblem of a palm tree.
The glycemic index (GI) for different varieties of the date palm fruit is in the range of 38–71, with 53 on average, [36] [38] indicating dates are a relatively low GI food source. [39] The glycemic load (GL) value of date palm fruits, calculated for a serving size of three fruits (weighting 27 grams) is 9 on average, indicating that dates ...
Arenga pinnata (syn. Arenga saccharifera) is an economically important feather palm native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the east. [1] Common names include sugar palm, areng palm (also aren palm or arengga palm), black sugar palm, and kaong palm, among other names. [2] [3]
Phoenix sylvestris (sylvestris - Latin, of the forest) also known as silver date palm, Indian date, sugar date palm or wild date palm, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the palm family native to southern Pakistan, most of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Coconut Palm, a monocotyledonous tree. About 10 Monocotyledon families include trees. [1] [2] Asparagaceae (Asparagus family) Cordyline, Cabbage tree etc. Dracaena, Dragon tree; Yucca, Joshua tree etc. Arecaceae (Palmae) (Palm family) Areca, Areca; Cocos nucifera, Coconut; Phoenix, Date Palm etc. Trachycarpus, Chusan Palm etc. Poaceae (grass ...
P. sylvestris Roxb. is widely used in India as a source of sugar. The sugary sap from some African palms yields country liquor on fermentation ( palm wine ). While P. dactylifera is grown for its edible dates, the Canary Island date palm ( P. canariensis ) and pygmy date palm ( P. roebelenii ) are widely grown as ornamental plants , but their ...
Fan palm as a descriptive term can refer to any of several different kinds of palms in various genera with leaves that are palmately lobed (rather than pinnately compound). Most are members of the subfamily Coryphoideae , though a few genera in subfamily Calamoideae ( Mauritia , Mauritiella and Lepidocaryum ) also have palmate leaves.