Posted by Gloria | Posted in Videos | Posted on 22-07-2011
Tags: fruit, Salacca, Salak, Snake, Zalacca
Salak (Salacca zalacca) is a species of palm tree (family Arecaceae) native to Indonesia. It is a quite brief-stemmed palm, with leaves up to 6m long every leaf has a 2m extended petiole with spines up to fifteen cm long, and quite a few leaflets. The fruit expand in clusters at the base of the palm, and are also acknowledged as snake fruit because of to the reddish-brown scaly skin. They are about the dimension and shape of a ripe fig, with a unique suggestion. The pulp is edible. The fruit can be peeled by pinching the tip which really should result in the skin to slough off so it can be pulled absent. The fruit within is made up of three lobes, every single containing a big inedible seed. The lobes resemble, and have the consistency of, huge peeled garlic cloves. The taste is generally sweet and acidic, but its apple-like texture can differ from quite dry and crumbly (salak pondoh from Yogyakarta) to moist and crunchy (salak Bali).
Video Rating: 5 / five
the leaves look like a salak palms as well as they way it is growing. probably just cant see the spikes on this video
really doesn’t look like the salak palm. The salak palm is covered in spikes even from an early age.
I will have to google this, never heard of a zalacca Snake Fruit.