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Hyphaene coriacea
Also called Ilala Palm, Vegetal Ivory Palm, Gingerbread Tree, Lala Fan Palm, Lala Palm, Southern Lala Palm
Hyphaene coriacea, the lala palm or ilala palm is a species of palm tree native to the eastern Afrotropics. It occurs in eastern Africa from Somalia to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, and is also found in the coastal flats of Madagascar and on Juan de Nova Island in the Mozambique Channel Islands.
The spongy pulp of the hard, brown fruit is edible and the fruit is eaten and sold in Madagascar and in eastern Africa; its Swahili name is Mkoma. The flavour has been compared to raisins and raisin bran.
Doum Palm · Branching Doum Palm · Vegetable Ivory Palm · Doum Palm · Hyphaene
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hyphaene coriacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
