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Sago palms (Metroxylon sagu) in New Guinea Peeling and pounding a segment of Sago Palm stem to produce an edible starch.Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. Sago (/ ˈ s eɪ ɡ oʊ /) is a starch extracted from the pith, or spongy core tissue, of various tropical palm stems, especially those of Metroxylon sagu. [1]
The tree is of commercial importance as the main source of sago, a starch obtained from the trunk by washing the starch kernels out of the pulverized pith with water. A trunk cut just prior to flowering contains enough sago to feed a person for a year. [4] Sago is used in cooking for puddings, noodles, breads, and as a thickener.
Jew house in Syuru, Agats. Jew, also known as the bachelor house, is an Asmat traditional house originating from the Asmat Regency, particularly from Agats. Jew, also known by several other names such as Je, Jeu, Yeu, or Yai, [1] is a rectangular elevated house made of wood, with walls and roofs made of woven sago palm or nipa palm leaves. [2]
Metroxylon is a genus of monoecious flowering plants in the Arecaceae (palm) family, and commonly called the sago palms consisting of seven species. They are native to Western Samoa , New Guinea , the Solomon Islands , the Moluccas , the Carolines and Fiji in a variety of habitats, and cultivated westward to Thailand and Malaya .
Cycas revoluta (Sotetsu [Japanese ソテツ], sago palm, king sago, sago cycad, Japanese sago palm) is a species of gymnosperm in the family Cycadaceae, native to southern Japan including the Ryukyu Islands. It is one of several species used for the production of sago, as well as an ornamental plant. The sago cycad can be distinguished by a ...
Sago palm. Sago palm is a common name for several plants which are used to produce a starchy food known as sago. Sago palms may be "true palms" in the family Arecaceae, or cycads with a palm-like appearance. Sago produced from cycads must be detoxified before consumption. Plants called sago palm include:
The still-moist sago starch is usually stored in a container made of sago palm leaflets, called tumang, in which it will keep for several months before spontaneous fermentation will turn it too acidic and unsuitable for making papeda. Depending on the variety and the growing conditions, it may take a sago tree five to over ten years to ...
Cycas circinalis, also known as the queen sago, is a species of cycad known in the wild only from southern India. Cycas circinalis is the only gymnosperm species found among native Sri Lankan flora. Taxonomy