Metroxylon sagu

 Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Metroxylon sagu']

• English: true sago palm
• Acèh: Meuria
• العربية: ساغوتية
• беларуская: Сагавая пальма
• Banjar: Rumbia
• čeština: ságovník pravý
• Deutsch: Sagopalme
• Esperanto: Sagua palmo
• español: Metroxylon
• français: Sagoutier
• Gaeilge: Ságphailm
• עברית: דקל הסאגו
• hornjoserbsce: Sagowa palma
• magyar: Valódi szágópálma
• Bahasa Indonesia: Rumbia, pohon sagu
• 한국어: 사고야자
• lietuvių: Tikrasis sagas
• Bahasa Melayu: Pokok Rumbia
• Nederlands: echte sagopalm
• polski: Sagownica sagowa
• русский: Саговая пальма настоящая
• Sunda: Kirai
• ไทย: สาคู
• українська: Сагова пальма
• 粵語: 西米椰子
• 中文: 西谷椰
• 中文（繁體）: 西穀椰子

APG IV 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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Metroxylon sagu

Photos

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

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  The leaves are cut for thatching

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  Young sago palm

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  Thatch from dried leaflets. Bogor.

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  Thatch, underside.

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  Sago palms in Tilomar, East Timor

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Extracting the starch

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  The pith of sago palm

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  Crushing the pith. Simeulue, Indonesia.

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  Crushed pith

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  Washing the pith to extract the starch

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  Dried starch, ready to cook

Sago starch products

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

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