Fear of snakes ~ ~ ~ ~ did not dare to eat
Snake skin fruit, Southeast Asian fruits Latin name: Salacca Reinw, Indonesia (as well as Malaysia and Singapore) name: Salak. palm family, the snake skin fruit genus, non-tree. The plant is similar to the Southeast Asian herb oil palm, leaves clustered from the root, 3 ~ 4 meters high, fruit clustered in the leaf axils of the root. The petiole is densely spiky. The pericarp is densely hairy.
Plants tufted, short-stemmed or almost stemless, spiny; dioecious. Leaves pinnatisect, pinnae lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, S-shaped or falcate-acuminate. Inflorescences borne between leaves. Male and female inflorescences heteromorphic. Male inflorescences branched, bearing several catkinlike terete branches; involucral peduncle and branches subtended in persistent spathe; male flowers inserted in pairs in axils of spathelets (bracts), usually accompanied by hairy bracteoles; calyx and corolla tubular, 3-lobed; stamens 6, inserted at mouth of corolla tube, filaments short, base broadened; female inflorescences fewer branched than those of males, but larger; female flowers inserted in pairs or solitary, larger than male flowers; bracts 6. larger than male flowers; bracts 2; neuter flowers accompanying female flowers, only 1 bract; calyx basally tubular, distally 3-lobed; corolla ca. as long as calyx or slightly longer, distally 3-lobed; staminodes 6; ovary 3-carpellate, 3-ovuled, incompletely 3-loculed, covered with flattened, smooth, or erect spiny-acuminate scales, styles short, stigmas 3. Fruit globose, turbinate, or ovoid, apically with a remnant of a stigma, epicarp thin, covered with scales in the form of imbricate reflexed scales, scale tips smooth or spinelike pointed, mesocarp thin, endocarp inconspicuous, seeds 1-3, oblong, globose or obtusely 3-angled, fleshy testa thick, acidic or sweet, endosperm uniform, hard, with a pore from the apical pore. Seed coat y invaded, embryo basal.