Metroxylon sagu

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 Vernacular names
English: true sago palm · Bahasa Indonesia: Rumbia, pohon sagu · Nederlands: echte sagopalm ·
APG III Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Cladus: commelinids • Ordo: Arecales • Familia: Arecaceae • Genus: Metroxylon • Species: Metroxylon sagu
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Photos [edit]

  • Sago palm garden, at a small stream valley. Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

  • The leaves are cut for thatching

  • Young sago palm

  • Thatch from dried leaflets. Bogor.

  • Thatch, underside.

  • Sago Palm Trees ESP PNG.jpg

Extracting the starch [edit]

  • The pith of sago palm

  • Crushing the pith. Simeulue, Indonesia.

  • Crushed pith

  • Sagu-04 081119-3865 sim.JPG

  • Washing the pith to extract the starch

  • Dried starch, ready to cook

Sago starch products [edit]

  • Cooked starch, in the form of 'rice' of sago. Served with fish barbeque

  • 'Sagu lempeng', small, long-keeping loaves made in the Moluccas, Indonesia (feb2002).

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