In gardens and common places Inflorescence sap is nutritious, cooling at and laxative and is a source of sugar and toddy. Roots are used to treat toothache and nervous debility. Fruits, being a sedative and nervine tonic, are useful in relieving backache and pain in the buttocks.
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Inflorescence sap is nutritious, cooling at and laxative and is a source of sugar and toddy. Roots are used to treat toothache and nervous debility. Fruits, being a sedative and nervine tonic, are useful in relieving backache and pain in the buttocks. It is also prescribed in cough, fever, nervous debility and gonorrhea.
family
Arecaceae
synonym
Elate sylvestris L.
description
Tree palm, to 16 m tall with a large crown and rough trunk covered with persistent leaf bases. Leaves 3-4.5 m long, greyish-green, with up to 10 cm spines at base; pinnules numerous, linear, 15-45 cm long and 2-2.5 cm wide, ending in short points. Flowers small, fragrant, borne in spadices; male flowers white, female greenish. Fruiting spadix about 90 cm long, bearing oblong-ellipsoid berries, 2.5-3.2 cm long, orange-yellow when ripe. Seed approximately 1.7 cm long, deeply grooved with rounded ends.