The taste of snake skin fruit is sour or sweet, it tastes crisp and has a light alcohol smell, and the meat is hard. Snake fruit is a regional fruit that has specific needs for light, temperature, water, etc. in the place of production. It has high temperature requirements and has been introduced and planted sporadically in various parts of southern China. Snake fruit is popular in the international market due to its delicious flavor and rich nutrition. It is one of the famous fruits in Southeast Asia.

Snake fruit is a plant of the palm family, the genus Snake fruit. The plant is relatively small, dioecious, with fully pinnate leaves and lanceolate or linear-lanceolate pinnae, in the shape of "s" "shaped or sickle-shaped; the inflorescence is born on the leaf blade, and the total peduncle and branches are wrapped in the existing spathe. The calyx and corolla are tubular, the filaments are short, the fruit is spherical, gyro-shaped or ovoid, with a residual stigma at the top. , the seeds are oblong, spherical or blunt triangular, taste sour or sweet, the endosperm is uniform and hard, and the embryo base is raw. Mainly distributed in tropical areas of Asia such as India, Indochina and the Malay Archipelago.