Arecaceae FAMILY

Areca triandra

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Areca triandra is an evergreen palm, sometimes with a solitary stem but more often suckering at the base to form a clump of stems. It grows up to 7.5 metres tall, with unbranched stems up to 8cm in diameter, each of which are topped by a crown of leaves 120 - 180cm long[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild as a food and source of materials. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeE. Asia - northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines.

HabitatAn understorey plant in forest margins and the undergrowth of seasonally flooded alluvial forest at low elevations[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. , 314 Title Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia. Publication Author Website http://www.pacsoa.org.au/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Contains at least a little information on the majority of palm and cycad species, plus a wealth of photographs. A first class website. ].