Sugar palm or Kaong PRODUCT NAME
Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr. Arenga sacharifera Labill. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Sugar palm or Kaong |
| Local Name: | Bagatbat (Negros Oriental); Batbat, Ebiok, Ibiok (Bohol); Cabo negro (Spanish); Habiok (Capiz); Hibiok (Capiz, Negros Oriental); Hidiok (Camarines, Albay, Antique, Capiz); Igok (Antique); Irok (Zambales, Cavite, Tayabas, Mindoro); Kaong (Manila, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna); Kauing (Bataan); Onau, Unau (Misamis, Surigao); Rapitan (Ilocos province). |
| Family: | Arecaceae/Palmae |
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| Product Description: | A large palm, reaches a height of from 12-15m and a diameter of 40 centimeters. It is very long, ascending, pinnate leaves, which are up to 8.5m in length with 100 or more pairs of linear leaflets which are whitish beneath, 1-1.5m long, lobed at the apex, and auricled at the base. The large axillary, pendulous inflorescence is also characteristic. It has very numerous, crowded, green nuts, which turn yellow when mature. The fruits are about 5cm in diameter and contain 2 or 3 seeds. The outer part of the fruit contains very numerous, microscopic, needle-like, stinging crystals or rhaphids; and this part of the fruit is exceeding irritating |
| NTFP Classification: | Food and food ingredients (plant-derived), Crafts and furniture making |
DISTRIBUTION
| Countries Found: | Philippines |
| Description: | This palm is widely distributed at low and medium altitudes throughout the settled areas of the Philippines, in ravines along streams |
USES AND PARTS USED
| Parts Used: | buds leaves, leaflets seeds |
| Uses: | The buds make an excellent salad The leaves sometimes used for thatching roofs, and the midribs of the leafs are used for rough brooms, and sometimes woven into coarse baskets The immature seed is eaten, being usually boiled with sugar to form a kind of sweetmeat |
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| Partners: | Bureau of Forestry, Philippines |
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