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Taiwan Date Palm systematic name: Phoenix hanceana Naudin Phoenix hanceana Naudin var. formosana Beccari grade: Palm (Arecaceae) phoenix (Phoenix) alias: Gomuti sugarpalm, Taiwan gomuti sugarpalm, Taiwan rice polishings betel, Taiwan rice polishings betel, rice polishings betel, paternal aunt betel wood, surface wooden source area: Southeast China, Hainan Island and Hong Kong, Taiwan. Use: 1. Transplants for the garden tree: Bonsai and roadside trees of park, garden, the campus. 2. Edible: after à£â€žâ€¦. shoot cleaning, may the raw food, may also fry the food or boil the food, cooks in a covered vessel boils especially good. à£â€žâ€ . dark purple fruit taste like red jujube, but after the raw food or the salt soak, edible. 3. Lao Ye does broom named â€Å“rice polishings betel broomâ€Â. Characteristic: The evergreenness medium xylophyte, the stem reaches as high as 7~8 meters, smooth, lower part does is slightly thin; Festival and the internode the stem are not obvious, after above covers entirely the fallen leaf, stays behind the verrucose fallen leaf trace, the diameter may amount to 30 centimeters. Pinnately compound, small leaf linear, the platoon becomes 4 row, the tip is incisive, lower part small leaf spinous, base degeneration spinous. Makes the right angle on the petiole to live, long approximately 30~50 centimeters, does not have the midrib. Flower female and male different à¦Å¾Âº, inflorescence meat fringy, the Buddha 燄 bud ellipse, the staminate flower has 3 flower petals and 6 stamens, the female flower has 3 carpels and 3 column heads; The fruit true length the approximately 1.2 centimeters, were just mature when is the orange yellow, finally turns the dark purple. Taiwan date palm and Taiwan fortune keteleeria, Taiwan Guangzhou flower cedar, the Taitung cycad and calls 'the Taiwan four big wonderful wood'.