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Arenga pinnata

Arenga pinnata
Sugar Palm

Solitairy monocarpic palm to 50′. Trunk to 1′ in diameter, covered in stiff black fibers; foliage pinnate, stiffly held, to 20′ long. Fruit yellowish, golf ball-sized, with 2-3 seeds in an irritating pulp.
Tree cultivated in SE Asia as a source of palm sugar.