name: Sago Palm

flavor_db_name_variants: sago palm

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Sago palm

id: 593

name_scientific: Metroxylon sagu

description: True sago palm is a suckering (multiple-stemmed) palm, each stem only flowering once (hapaxanthic) with a large upright terminal inflorescence. A stem grows 7?25 m tall before it ends in an inflorescence. Before flowering, a stem bears about 20 pinnate leaves up to 10 m long. Each leaf has about 150-180 leaflets up to 175 cm long. The inflorescence, 3-7.5 m tall and wide, consists of the continuation of the stem and 15-30 upwardly-curving (first-order) branches spirally arranged on it. Each first-order branch has 15-25 rigid, distichously arranged second-order branches; each second-order branch has 10-12 rigid, distichously arranged third-order branches. Flower pairs are spirally arranged on the third-order branches, each pair consisting of one male and one hermaphrodite flower. The fruit is drupe-like, about 5 cm in diameter, covered in scales which turn from bright green to straw-coloured upon ripening.

itis_id: 506732

wikipedia_id: Metroxylon_sagu

picture_file_name: 607.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 135856

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:38:21.000Z

legacy_id: 634

food_group: Herbs and Spices

food_subgroup: Oilseed crops

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:51.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:28.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 93297

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00593