Areca catechu | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-07

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00:01:23 1 Growth
00:01:54 2 Characteristics
00:02:53 2.1 Chemical composition
00:03:28 3 Uses



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Areca catechu is a species of palm which grows in much of the tropical Pacific, Asia, and parts of east Africa. The palm is believed to have originated in the Philippines, but is widespread in cultivation and is considered naturalized in southern China (Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Ceylon, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, many of the islands in the Pacific Ocean, and also in the West Indies.The species has many common names including the areca palm, areca nut palm, betel palm, Indian nut, Pinang palm, Chinese language/Mandarin: 檳榔, Tamil:  கமுகு, Tagalog: bunga, Indonesia/Malay: pinang, Tamil: கமுகு "kamuhu", Malayalam:adakka, and Kannada: Adike. It is also known as puga in Sanskrit,"puwak" in Sinhala and supari in Marathi and Gujarati. Normally it is known as the pinang tree in Malaysia. In English this palm is called the betel tree because its fruit, the areca nut, is often chewed along with the betel leaf, a leaf from a vine of the family Piperaceae.
Areca is derived from a local name from the Malabar Coast of India, and catechu is from another Malay name for this palm, caccu.