Fish-Tail Palm
Caryota urens
Also known as Solitary Toddy Palm, Indian sago palm, Jaggery palm, Kittul
About Fish-Tail Palm
Caryota urens is a species of flowering plant in the palm family, native to Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar and Malaysia (perhaps elsewhere in Indo-Malayan region), where they grow in fields and rainforest clearings, it is regarded as introduced in Cambodia. The epithet urens is Latin for "stinging" alluding to the chemicals in the fruit. Common names in English include solitary fishtail palm, kithul palm, toddy palm, wine palm, sago palm and jaggery palm. Its leaf is used as fishing rod after trimming the branches of the leaf and drying. According to Monier-Williams, it is called moha-karin ("delusion maker") in Sanskrit. It is one of the sugar palms.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Caryota urens
- Genus
- Caryota
- Family
- ARECACEAE
- Habit
- Palm (Columnar)
- Habitat
- Shola forests
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaya Peninsula, Nepal
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-August
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- Mari, सल्फी
- Nepali
- जगर Jagar
- Tamil
- கொண்டல் பனை Kontalpanai
- Kannada
- ಬಗನೆ Bagane, ಬಗನಿ Bagani, ಬೈನೆ Baine
- Malayalam
- Anappana
- Marathi
- सुरमाड Surmad, भेरली माड Bherli Maad, भेरली माड
Arecaceae
Palm family
Fish-Tail Palm belongs to the Arecaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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