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« Reply #570 on: December 13, 2007, 07:14:08 pm »



DOUM PALM FRUIT










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Doum Palm in Northern Sudan

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae
 
Division: Magnoliophyta
 
Class: Liliopsida
 
Order: Arecales
 
Family: Arecaceae
 
Genus: Hyphaene
 
Species: H. thebaica
 
 
Binomial name
Hyphaene thebaica
(L.) Mart.
 
                                                              Hyphaene thebaica



The thebaica, (الدوم in Arabic), is a type of palm tree, Hyphaena thebaica, also called gingerbread tree,
with edible oval fruit, originally native to the Nile valley. It is a member of the palm family, Arecaceae.
Its fibre and leaflets are used by people along the Nile to weave baskets (e.g.Material Culture of
the Manasir).
 
The northernmost habitat of the Doum Palm is in Evrona, about 20 kms north of Eilat, Israel.

The doum palm fruit is also known in Eritrea as Akat, or Akaat in the Tigrinya language. The thin dried brown rind is made into molasses, cakes, and sweetmeats. The unripe kernals are edible. The shoots of
the germinated seeds are also eaten as a vegetable. Herb tea of doum is popular in Egypt and believed
good for diabetes.

It was considered sacred by the Ancient Egyptians and the seed was found in many pharaoh's tombs
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