ໝາກຕາວ / Westerhout's Sugar Palm

Tall unbranched palm with one stem, growing 8-20 m high with a trunk of 5-10 m, and DBH 25-60 cm. The palm has about 15 compound leaves, each 6-10 m long, with 150 pairs of leaflets. Male and female inflorescences occur on separate trees, and can be 1-2 m long. Three to seven female inflorescence form at the top of the palm, with seven to fifteen male inflorescence appearing later and lower down the tree. One inflorescence can have as many as 10,000 female flowers. The green fruit, is 5-8 cm long, ball-shaped and fleshy, growing in clusters of about 36,000. Each fruit contains one to three yellow, fat and sweet seeds. Flowering and fruiting times are still uncertain.