Areca Nut Plant
It is also known as areca nut.
Areca nut plant. The best known member of the genus is a. Catechu the areca nut palm. Several species of areca nuts known for their bitter and tangy taste raw or dried are routinely used for chewing especially in combination with the leaves of betel and dried leaves of tobacco. 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.
Check out our areca palm trees or the container palm a multi stemmed palm with elegant arching fronds. Areca palms are planted from seed usually many seeds to a single pot or cluster. It is unusual to find areca palm seeds but if you do you can germinate them at home by planting them at a uniform depth in the seed starting soil. Limited clinical applications exist and long term adverse reactions to betel quid chewing are well documented.
A decrease in positive symptoms among men with schizophrenia was attributed to betel nut consumption. The betel piper betle is a vine belonging to the piperaceae family which includes pepper and kava. Betel leaf is mostly consumed in asia and elsewhere in the world by some asian emigrants as betel quid or in paan with areca nut andor tobacco. The arecaceae is a very large family of 225 genera and 2600 species of tropical woody xerophytic monocotyledons.
While palms arent succulent they are often grown by collectors of cacti and other succulent plants. What is betel nut. Betel nut is the seed of the fruit of the areca palm.