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Today we are going to see about the Palm Tree. Palm Tree is a very valuable one. From the top to bottom it has various parts and all are very useful without any wastage.

Now let's see about Palm Tree and its Parts. We can see more Palm trees in South East Asia. Palm Tree is the state tree of Tamilnadu State. It has various Parts like Palmyra Leaves and its stalk, Stem, Flower, Ice apple, Palm Fruit, Palmyra Sprout, palm kernel, etc. 

1. Palm Leaves: Leaf of a Palm Tree is used for writing notes earlier. It’s also used for making Palm leaf boxes, palm fronds (Muram/Solavu – in Tamil) and more handmade crafts. Palm tree box is used as a storage box, and used to carry things in most of the village People. Palm tree leaf has its Strong stem with it. So it can use for the roof of Kuccha House (Hut) 

When I was kid we took small palm tree boxes to the temple instead of plastic baskets. It was quite beautiful and eco-friendly. Making rice Dumplings (Kolukattai – in Tamil) while using the fresh green Palm Leaf during the Karthigai Festival.

 2. Palmyra leaf Stalk: Palmyra leaf Stalk has black curvy and sharp edges. It is used to make the Fence for the house and garden in the village to prevent animal’s entry. It is also used as a cricket bat in early childhood

3. Palm tree Stem: The stem of the Palm tree is much stronger than enough to build a house. The dark black wood of palm trees is used in many ways like making ladder, tables. Door, wooden crafts, roof of the building house etc.

4. Ice Apple: Ice apples are like a sweet jelly juicy type fruit. Actually it comes from inside of the palm fruit like seed. But that skin was not either softer or harder. Sometimes we can eat ice apples with their skin and sometimes we should peel the skin of the ice apple then we can consume. It increases water content in our body and helps to reduce body heat.

5. Palm Fruit: Palm fruit also can be eaten. When the ice apple grows harder inside the palm fruit. We can’t eat that. That time we take the palm fruit and grill the fruit in direct fire. After that we can peel the outside skin. Then we get the bright yellow soft fruit inside. We can taste the fruit. Wow, it really tastes good with more fiber.

6. Palmyra Sprout: It is called as Panankizhangu in tamil. It's also edible. Rich in fiber content. We can boil this with a little turmeric and a pinch of salt after peeling the skin. After boiling, we can eat it like sugarcane. But it doesn't taste not like sugarcane. But it tastes good. We can chew that and throw the excess residue outside.

7. Dried Palm fruit seed: Palm kernel/seed is also called as thavun seed in tamil. It tastes good like coconut flowers. It prevents Stomach issues and reduces heat. If we want to plant the palm tree, this seed is very important. We can put this seed under the soil, then we can get palmyra sprout under the ground. Then only palm trees will grow.

8. Pathaneer: Neera or Palm wine (Non-alcoholic sweet drink). It is a natural drink to cool our body and relieve summer fatigue. It has more health benefits too. From pathaneer only we can get palm jaggery/ palm sugar/candy etc.

See guys as I said earlier top to bottom of the Palm Trees are very useful without any wastage. Is it a real treasure? Isn’t it?

Thank you all,