betel palm การใช้

• Its lush coconut and betel palms and its grand banyans are stripped of their leaves like shorn sheep.
• Betel palms carpet hillsides in the county and many other rural parts of the island, replacing rice and vegetables.
• Betel palms have begun carpeting hillsides usually used for growing rice and vegetables and are causing serious soil erosion, farming officials say.
• The consultant also suggested plantation of African grass, reed and bamboo along the middle deck and flowering plants and trees like bottlebrush, bougainvillea, royal palms and areca nut betel palms along the upper deck.
• The fruit of the betel palm, the date-sized nuts are slaked with lime and flavoring, served with a wedge of pepper or wrapped in a leaf, then sold at roadside stalls around the island.
• The nut is either slivered or grated, often flavored with spices according to local tradition and usually wrapped in a betel leaf ( betel leaf comes from the betel pepper plant, " Piper betle ", which is not botanically related to the betel palm, " Areca catechu " ), along with some lime ( calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide ) to better extract the alkaloids.