Nypa fruticans, commonly known as the nipa palm (or simply nipa, from Malay: nipah) or mangrove palm, [4] is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the only palm considered adapted to the mangrove biome.

2019年11月11日 · Leaves have 120 leaflets per leaf and has shiny green upper and powdery lower surface. Rhizomes and leaf bases are light and spongy. Inflorescences are yellow, subterminal, long, sturdy 1 m long stalks which arises from the base of the plant. Stalk has long sheathing spathes and few ascending spathed branches. Spathes are orange tipped olive green.

2013年2月15日 · The Nipah Palm is the most widely utilised mangrove species, with products obtained from the leaves, inflorescences, and fruits. The most noticable of all in present day Singapore is the attap chee found in our local dessert, Ice Kacang. This comes from the gelatinous endosperm from the young seeds.

Food (Fruit or Vegetable): Young translucent-white chewy seeds ('attap chee') edible, usually boiled in sugar syrup and added to local deserts. Inflorescence stalk cut off before flowers open, and tapped for a sweet liquid that can be boiled to yield a brown sugar called 'gula melaka', fermented into an alchoholic drink called 'toddy', or ...

2010年8月23日 · MARANG: The traditional thatched roof, or attap made of nipah palm leaves, has made a comeback in recent years and 20 senior citizens in Kampung Jenang here have their hands full with orders that go into the thousands from all over Peninsular Malaysia.

2024年10月21日 · Nipa fruit, also called attap fruit, looks like someone took a bunch of coconuts, shrunk them down, and glued them together into a spiky ball. It’s nature’s own version of a disco ball, ready to party in the swamp. The Classic Nipa is a jack-of-all-trades in the plant world.

Having a popular local Singapore dessert - Ice Kachang or Chendol - and you wonder what is that oval, sweet and translucent white jelly? It is 'attap chee', which means 'attap seed', that comes from the Nipah palm. Ice Chendol (top) and Ice Kachang (bottom) with attap chee - local desserts in Singapore. Photos © Erika I. Halim.

2011年1月1日 · Dried fronds are used as roofing material for thatched houses and dwellings and is called attap in Malay and nipa in the Philippines and for house walls. Leaflets and mid ribs are woven into mats, baskets, brooms, sunhats, raincoats, bags, umbrellas and other household and handicraft items.

Found in area of low salinities and calm water. The mature leaves are used for thatching material and young leaves for cigarette-wrappers. The sap from the inflorescence stalk can be used to make toddy, vinegar or boiled down to sugar (gula melaka). Young seeds are edible (attap chee).

There, nestled in the brackish waters of a coastal mangrove forest, I first encountered Nypa fruticans, commonly known as the nipa palm or attap palm. The locals called it by various names – buah atap, mangrove palm, and water coconut.