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Arenga pinnata
Also called Black Fiber Palm, Malay Sago Palm, Areng Palm, Gomuti Palm, Black Fibre Palm
Sugar palm (Arenga pinnata) is a medium-sized feather palm from tropical Asia, grown mainly for its sap, fibre and fruit. It needs warmth, humidity and room to grow, and it is a fast grower that can reach around 20 m in the wild.
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. Common names include sugar palm, areng palm (also aren palm or arengga palm), black sugar palm, and kaong palm, among other names.
A. pinnata suffers from the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, and is one of its major hosts in China.
Many products of the palm are used, as food, as construction materials, and for other purposes.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
