Sugar Palm

Sugar palm is a common name for several species of palms used to produce sugar.

Species used include:
  • Arenga pinnata (syn. A. saccharifera)
  • Borassus flabellifer
  • Caryota urens
  • Cocos nucifera

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Famous quotes containing the words sugar and/or palm:

    “‘Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
    ‘You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.’”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “How did you get in the Navy? How did you get on our side? Ah, you ignorant, arrogant, ambitious—keeping sixty two men in prison cause you got a palm tree for the work they did. I don’t know which I hate worse, you or that malignant growth that stands outside your door. How did you ever get command of a ship? I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. But where’d they ever scrape you up?”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)