Oil palm

The shape of oil palm is very much like coconut, so it is also known as "oil coconut", its hometown in West Africa. It has been growing in the rainforest in obscurity for more than 100 years. It was not until the beginning of this century that it was discovered and valued, and now it is a star in the world's "green oil depot" and has become a veritable "money tree".

oil palm is the world's highest yield per unit area of a woody oil plant. General mu yield palm oil about 200 kg, five or six times higher than flower production oil, is nearly 10 times the oil production of soybeans, so there is "the world's oil king" said.

palm branch, evergreen upright trees, up to 10 meters, tree diameter 30 cm, tree trunks have a remaining leaf base. The leaves are 3-6 meters long, the top of the cluster stem, the cracked strip-shaped shawl needle, about 50-60 pairs, feathery leaves. Flower mono sex, male and female, meat spike flower sequence, four seasons flowering, flowers and fruit coexist, matching into fun. The nucleo-fruit egg-shaped or inverted egg-shaped, each large spike results in 1 to 3,000, aggregated into a spherical shape. The largest fruit weighs 20 kg, the flesh, nuts in more than 15 kg, oil content of about 60%.

oil from the oil palm fruit is called palm oil, the oil extracted from palm kernels is called palm kernel oil, are high-quality cooking oil. They can also be refined into high-quality cream, chocolate sugar, instead of cocoa butter, ice cream oil and so on. High-quality soap can be manufactured in industry. Fruit shell can be refined acetate, formaldehyde, activated carbon, fiberboard. Palm oil cakes can be used as feed. When the flowers are ripe, the liquid juice that flows out can also be brewed.

20 to 25 years for oil palm trees. China's Hainan, Two-Guangzhou, Taiwan, Fujian, Yunnan and other provinces and regions have introduced species, is currently actively building oil palm garden.