Black palm

Black palm is a common name for several species of plants in the family Arecaceae, including:

Black Palm (Borassus flabellifer) has some distinct characteristics that run closer to bamboo—a grass—then a hardwood. Like bamboo, black palm is a monocot—contains a single cotyledon (seed-leaf)—is fibrous and stringy, resilient, strong and dense. Hailing from Southeast Asia, black palm is also known as Asian Palmyra and Cambodian and Sugar Palm, and is in the same family as the sabal palm, what up Florida. Aside from being harvested for the heartwood, palmyra fruit's seed sockets (known as ice-apple by the British) is similar in texture and flavor to lychee, though without the pit, while sap from young trees is used to make sugar.