Palm pinyin: zōng lǘ. The palm is an evergreen tree with a cylindrical, unbranched stem, large, long petiolate leaves, palmately parted with lanceolate lobes, yellow, dioecious flowers, and oblong drupes. Palm up to 7 m tall; stem terete, leaf blades suborbicular, petioles crenulate on both sides, inflorescences stout, dioecious. Flowers yellowish green, ovoid; fruit broadly reniform, umbilical, changing from yellow to light blue at maturity, with white powder, seed endosperm horny. Flowering in April, fruiting in December.

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This species is widely cultivated throughout the south, mainly stripped of its palm bark fiber (leaf sheath fiber), for rope, woven straw raincoat, palm bandage, carpet, brush and sofa padding, etc.; the young leaves can be bleached to make fans and straw hats; the trunk of the tree can be used as a pavilion columns, sinks, and can be made into a fan bone, comb, etc. The young scape can be eaten. The young scape is edible. Flowers, fruits and seeds are used as medicine. Seeds are rich in starch, protein, processing is a good feed. In addition, the palm tree has a beautiful shape, is also an excellent tree species for garden landscaping.