list down the product of plam tree 10 things
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Coconuts are an obvious product of palm trees, but did you know that dates, betel nuts and acai fruit all come from palm trees as well? Palm oil, as its name indicates, also comes from the fruit of the oil palm tree.
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Ten uses of the various parts of a palm tree -
1. Mature kernel is eaten as food and shredded kernel is used in curries, sweets and desserts.
2. Cream extracted from the kernel is also used in curries and sweets and flavouring of a variety of local dishes including fish curries.
3. Oil extracted from dried kernel (copra), which is rich in glycerine, is widely used in cooking and used to make soaps, shampoos, shaving creams, toothpaste, lotions, hydraulic fluid, etc.
4. A sweet juice extracted from a clump of unopened flowers is easily boiled down to syrup, called coconut molasses, which is crystallized into a light brown or dark-coloured sugar.
5. Husk of the nut contains fiber is combed out and sold as coir, a material for making rope and coconut matting.
6. Fibre is resistant to seawater and is used as cables and rigging in ships, for making mats, rugs, bags, brooms and brushes and also as olive oil filter in some European countries.
7. In the Maldives, trunk wood is used for house construction and outer wood, which is hard, heavy, strong and close-grained, is used for boat building.
8. Mature fronds are commonly woven into thatching material, walls of temporary buildings and screens.
9. Shell, which is hard and fine grained, is carved into all kinds of objects including souvenirs, drinking cups, scoops, smoking pipe bowl etc.
10. Charcoal from the shell is used for cooking fires, air filters, in gas masks, submarines and cigarette tips.