Salak (Salacca zalacca) - part 1

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#Dlium Salak or snake fruit (Salacca zalacca) is a species of palm plant in Arecaceae, dioesis, shrubs and not trunked, has many thorns, many shoots, grows into dense and strong clumps, spreads below or above the ground, often branching and 10-15 cm diameter.

S. zalacca has compound leaves, pinnate and 3-7 m long. Petiole, midrib and sapling have many long thorns, thin spines and a blackish-gray color. Minor leaves have a lanceolate shape, a pointed tip, 8x85 cm and a white underside by a waxy coating.

The flowers in the cob are compound, appear in the armpit of the leaf, stem, initially covered by a sheath then dry and break down like fibers. Male flowers 50-100 cm long, 4-12 cylindrical items, 7-15 cm long, reddish in the armpits of tightly arranged scales. Female flowers 20-30 cm long, stemmed long and 1-3 items.

The fruit has yellow brown or shiny red brown scaly skin and is known as a table fruit, pointed at the base and rounded at the tip and 2.5-10 cm long. Sarcotesta is thick and yellow to whitish and has a sweet and sour taste. Each fruit has 1-3 seeds, brown to black, hard and 2-3 cm long.

Snake fruit has two varieties, S. zalacca var. zalacca from Yogyakarta and S. zalacca var. amboinensis from Bali and Ambon. At least 30 cultivars include salak pondoh, salak gading, salak kembang arum in Yogyakarta and salak bali in Bali.

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Calamoideae
Tribe: Calameae
Genus: Salacca
Species: Salacca zalacca

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Location: Turi, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia.

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