The betelnut also called pugua or mamaon by guamanians are palm nuts from the areca tree. And mesocarp or flesh surrounds a single shell the pit stone or pyrene of hardened endocarp with a seed kernel inside. The areca nut aer k e or e r i k e is the fruit of the areca palm areca catechu which grows in much of the tropical pacific melanesia and micronesia southeast and south asia and parts of east africa.
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Areca nut husk. Hscode product description harmonised product code list 06039000 othr cut flwrs flower buds suitable for boqetsfor ornmntl purpses 06042000 fresh foliage branches and plants nt hving flowers buds and grasses. Snippet areca nut is the fourth most commonly used psychoactive substance in the world chewed regularly by at least 10 of the population with high prevalences in south and southeast asia. The scientific name for the tree is areca catechu and resembles a thin coconut palm tree. The white variety is found by harvesting fully ripe areca nut and by sun drying.
Search our database for information about tropical fruits tomatoes hot peppers vegetables ornamentals temperate plants herbs and more. There are two varieties of areca nut white and red. Arecanut or betelnut areca catechu l is an important cash crop in the western ghats eastern ghats east and north eastern regions of india. These fruits usually develop from a single carpel and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries polypyrenous.
The husk of tender nut is used widely in china to make mouth freshener and other edible items after due processing there. In botany a drupe or stone fruit is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part exocarp or skin. Nuts and bolts of areca areca nut palm is a commercial crop.
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