Salacca wallichiana

Botanical Description

Salacca wallichiana is an evergreen palm with very spiny leaves that are 3 - 7 metres long[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ]. A creeping and tillering palm that grows in clumps, the creeping, subterranean, unbranched stems can reach 3 - 5 metres long and 20cm in diameter in plants over 100 years old, with an erect terminal leaf-bearing part around 1 metre tall and with many adventitious roots, most abundant towards the tip[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ]. Roots can reach a length of 2 metres but do not extend to a great depth[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ]. The plants are valued for their edible fruit, mainly in Thailand, and are also harvested as a source of construction materials. Superior fruit-bearing forms have been developed and these are often cultivated in gardens and plantations[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ].