Palm leaves: efficacy and function of palm leaves

Palm trees also known as palm trees, mountain palms, palms and coconut trees belong to the genus Palm. Next, let's take a look at the efficacy and function of palm leaves.

Palm trees are small evergreen trees with unbranched trunks, compound leaves, umbrella-shaped crowns and dioecious plants. Palm trees have smaller and yellowish flowers. The fruit is a berry or drupe, which is cyan at first and turns black-brown when ripe, and the fruit is covered with white powder.

Palms, evergreen trees, up to 10m high. The stem is cylindrical, stout and erect, unbranched, about 20cm in diameter, and the residual brown fibrous old leaf sheath is wrapped layer by layer on the stem and shows a ring-shaped node after falling off. The leaf cluster is born at the top of the stem and expands outward; the petiole is hard, about 1 m long, the cross section is nearly triangular, the margin is denticulate, the base has a brown fibrous reticulate leaf sheath, the new petiole is erect, and the old petiole is often drooping.

Leaf blade suborbicular, 70-100cm in diameter, with many wrinkles, palmately divided to middle, with lobes 30-50, each lobe apex shallowly 2-lobed, green above, wax powdered below, leathery. Fleshy inflorescences, drawn from stem top leaf axils, with many large sheathlike bracts at base, yellowish, pilose.

Dioecious; male flowers small, numerous, yellowish, perianth 6 whorled, broadly ovate, stamens 6, filaments short, separate; female perianth monoecious, ovary superior, densely white pilose, style 3-lobed. Drupe globose or subreniform, ca. 1cm in diameter, exocarp grayish blue when ripe, covered with wax powder. The flowering period is from April to May and the fruiting period is from October to December.

Palm trees like to grow in a warm and humid environment and are more resistant to cold and shade. Palm trees have strong stress resistance and low requirements for soil and environment. Palm trees can grow well in acidic soil or polluted environment. Its reproduction mainly adopts the method of sowing and reproduction.

The role of palm trees

1. Palm trees are tall and straight, with lush leaves, evergreen all the year round, and can absorb harmful substances in the air. They play a good role in purifying the air and beautifying the environment, and are very suitable for planting in courtyards, roadsides and flower beds.

2, economic function: Palm tree is a kind of economic tree species, palm skin can make palm mat, palm coat, etc., palm coat is the ancient raincoat; young leaves can be woven into hats, fans, baskets, bags and other handicrafts; wood can be made into utensils, such as bridge stakes; seeds can be used as food for livestock after crushing.

3. Medicinal value: the flower, bark, root and seed of palm have certain medicinal value, and have a certain therapeutic effect on blood avalanche, belt, diarrhea and so on.

The above is the whole content of the efficacy and function of palm leaves that I have summarized for you. I hope this article can help you. Please continue to follow us.