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Topic Title: BORASSUS
Topic Summary: PALMYRA PALM / TODDY PALM
Created On: 03/25/2012 01:37 AM
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03/25/2012 01:37 AM
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Thaumaturgist

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Palmyra Palm

Edited: 02/02/2013 at 12:15 PM by Thaumaturgist
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03/25/2012 06:56 AM
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Latania

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There is a fruiting Borassus (aethiopum) at the Michael place in Indian River County. Central Florida Palm & Cycad Society has been selling its donated seeds for some years now. Is toddy made only from Borassus flabellifer?
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03/25/2012 09:01 AM
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Thaumaturgist

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Excellent question.

All three major Borassus,

flebellifer
aethiopum
madagascariensis

are capable of producing the sap. However, it appears that only the Asian Borassus (B flabellifer) is used for tapping its sap.

In India, it became the cheapest and plentiful source of making the local moonshine by proper fermentation, not necessarily sanitary, of the sap collected at dawn from clay jars that were hung the previous evening.

The natives called it TAARRIE in Bengali, and it came out as TODDY when the British tried to pronounce it. Needless to say, B flabellifer came to be known as the Toddy Palm.
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03/25/2012 08:54 PM
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Latania

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Thanks, Asit, for the explanation.
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07/18/2012 09:44 PM
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Thaumaturgist

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#3

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07/21/2012 05:13 AM
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Coconuts

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Here's an old pic of me with my backyard Borassus

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07/21/2012 07:42 AM
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Latania

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Yeah, Char, your backyard at Fairchild?
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07/21/2012 09:00 AM
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Coconuts

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Oh, did I say 'my backyard' I must be getting old LOL!
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