Betel nut (Areca catechu L.)
Synonym: A. hortensis, Lour,
Familia: Arecaceae
Betel nut is generally planted in the yard, in the gardens or cultivated, sometimes growing wild on the banks of rivers and other places, can be found from 1-1400 m above sea level. Slender trunked tree, grows straight, 10-30 m tall, 15-20 cm diameter, unbranched with the former leaves off. Pinnate compound leaves grow together form a rosette at the stem end of the rod. Tubular leaf midrib, 80 cm long, petiole short. 1 to 1.8 m long strands of leaves, leaf child has a 85 cm long, 5 cm wide, with cutouts and scalloped edge. Cob flower with a long sheath that easily fall out, get out from under the rosette of leaves, length about 75 cm, with short stems branched double. There is 1 female flower at the base, on top of many male flowers are arranged in 2 lines embedded in the groove.
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