Salak (Salacca zalacca) - part 1

Part 2:    • Salak (Salacca zalacca) - part 2   Calamus unifarius    • Patis rattan (Calamus unifarius)   Plectocomia elongata    • Rhino rattan (Plectocomia elongata)   Borassus flabellifer    • Asian palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer)   Pinanga coronata    • Pinang piji (Pinanga coronata) - part 3   Nypa fruticans    • Mangrove palm (Nypa fruticans)   #Dlium Salak or snake fruit (Salacca zalacca) is a species of palm plant in Arecaceae, dioesis, shrubs and not trunked, has many thorns, many shoots, grows into dense and strong clumps, spreads below or above the ground, often branching and 10-15 cm diameter. S. zalacca has compound leaves, pinnate and 3-7 m long. Petiole, midrib and sapling have many long thorns, thin spines and a blackish-gray color. Minor leaves have a lanceolate shape, a pointed tip, 8x85 cm and a white underside by a waxy coating. The flowers in the cob are compound, appear in the armpit of the leaf, stem, initially covered by a sheath then dry and break down like fibers. Male flowers 50-100 cm long, 4-12 cylindrical items, 7-15 cm long, reddish in the armpits of tightly arranged scales. Female flowers 20-30 cm long, stemmed long and 1-3 items. The fruit has yellow brown or shiny red brown scaly skin and is known as a table fruit, pointed at the base and rounded at the tip and 2.5-10 cm long. Sarcotesta is thick and yellow to whitish and has a sweet and sour taste. Each fruit has 1-3 seeds, brown to black, hard and 2-3 cm long. Snake fruit has two varieties, S. zalacca var. zalacca from Yogyakarta and S. zalacca var. amboinensis from Bali and Ambon. At least 30 cultivars include salak pondoh, salak gading, salak kembang arum in Yogyakarta and salak bali in Bali. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Liliopsida Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Subfamily: Calamoideae Tribe: Calameae Genus: Salacca Reinw. in Syll. Pl. Nov. 2: 3 (1825) Species: Salacca zalacca (Gaertn.) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 1152 (1895) Homotypic Synonyms Calamus zalacca Gaertn. in Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 267 (1791) Salacca rumphii Wall. in Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: t. 223 (1831) Heterotypic Synonyms Calamus salakka Willd. ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. 1: 252 (1840) Salacca blumeana Mart. in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 202 (1838) Salacca edulis Reinw. in Syll. Pl. Nov. 2: 3 (1825) Salacca edulis var. amboinensis Becc. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(2): 74 (1918) Salacca zalacca var. amboinensis (Becc.) Mogea in Principes 26: 71 (1982) Publications Aung, Y.L., Aung, M.H., Tan, Y. & Jin, X. (2025). An updated checklist of vascular plants of Myanmar. PhytoKeys 261: 135-364. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Austria: Schlangenfrucht Balinese: Salak Bugis: Sala Chinese (simplified): 蛇皮果 Chinese (traditional): 蛇皮果 Czech: Salaka jedlá Dutch: Salak English: Salak, Snake fruit, Snakeskin fruit Finnish: Salaki German: Schlangenfrucht Indonesian: Salak Java: Salak Makassar: Sala Minangkabau: Sala Polish: Oszpilna jadalna Russian: Салак Slovak: Salaka jedlá Spanish: Salak, Fruto de la serpiente, Cayigo Learn more: https://www.dlium.com/2019/10/salak-s... Location: Turi, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia. Aryo Bandoro Dlium TheDlium Web: https://www.dlium.com