Nypa fruticans
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Nypa fruticans, commonly known as the nipa palm or mangrove palm, is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the only palm considered
Nipa palms
Nypa fruticans Range
The trunk or stem of the nipa palm is under the mud. Only the leaves project upwards.
A globular flower cluster on a nipa palm
Arrack
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Arrack is a distilled alcoholic drink typically produced in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia, made from the fermented sap of coconut flowers or sugarcane, and also with grain or fruit depending up
Nypa fruticans
…for several weeks to make a kind of vinegar known as sukang paombong in the Philippines and cuka nipah in Malaysia. Tuba can also be distilled to make arrack, locally known as lambanog in Filipino and arak or arak nipah in Indonesian. Young shoots are also edible; the flower petals can be infused to make an…
Two kinds of arrack from Sri Lanka
Batavian arrack factory "Aparak" in 1948
Lambanog, a palm liquor
"Ceylon Arrack"