——Preface·]—
When it comes to coconut trees, the first impression of everyone is probably the tall coconut trees hanging round coconuts on the coast, and when you smash the coconut, people can drink the delicious coconut water in it.
However, there is such a kind of coconut tree, it can't produce our common coconut, and there is no coconut water, and it looks no different from an ordinary coconut tree, but it doesn't bear a single coconut, but this kind of coconut tree that doesn't bear a coconut can feed millions of people.
This coconut tree is the West Valley coconut tree that grows in Southeast Asia, why do West Valley coconut trees never bear coconuts, and how do West Valley coconut trees that do not bear coconuts feed millions of people?
——A coconut tree like no other.—
Most people know about coconuts because of the tall coconut trees near the tourist resort Sanya Beach, coconut trees, tall trees in tropical climates, the leaves are born at the top, which looks very "prickly", and under the leaves, there are round and large coconuts one after another.
This kind of coconut tree is widely cultivated in Sanya, Hainan and Guangdong, and the coconut tree we call today is very different from the coconut tree that is widely recognized.
Although the coconut palm tree in Xigu belongs to the same palm family as the coconut palm trees widely cultivated in Hainan and Guangdong, and is quite similar in size, the crops produced are completely different.
The Nishigu coconut tree is very tall, growing up to 20 meters in height, and its leaves look the same as those of our common coconut trees, except that there are no coconuts underneath the leaves.
The West Valley coconut palm is native to Indonesia and New Guinea, but today, the West Valley coconut palm is almost all over Southeast Asia, and this unique coconut tree is loved by Southeast Asian people.
If you're traveling to Southeast Asian countries and you see a coconut tree without a coconut hanging on it, it's probably the West Valley coconut tree.
Originally, the West Valley coconut tree grew in the swamps of the rainforests of the Nissi Belt in India, and is a rare and barren-tolerant, high-yielding food tree in the region.
In the coastal areas of Southeast Asia, there are very few areas that can be cultivated, and the high degree of soil salinization means that there are not many plants that can be grown, and the coconut palm tree of the West Valley is a high-yielding food tree that is very popular.
Yes, although the West Valley coconut tree does not grow coconuts, it will grow grain and is an important food crop in Southeast Asia, so there must be friends who are puzzled, the grain of the West Valley coconut tree is grown from **?
-- Rice-producing West Valley Coconut
The reason why the Nishigu coconut tree can become a food tree is because of the large amount of starch precipitated in its stems, and the Nishigu coconut tree grows very fast, growing to a height of more than ten meters in ten years, and has a lifespan of between 15 and 20 years.
It only takes two or three years for the coconut tree to be planted, and the starch in the trunk will precipitate a lot, and before flowering, the starch in the coconut tree rises to the highest moment, and when the coconut tree blooms, the starch will be consumed in large quantities.
The West Valley coconut tree, on the other hand, only blooms once in its life, and once it blooms, the West Valley coconut tree will also die, so after discovering this habit of the West Valley coconut tree, people will cut down the West Valley coconut tree before it blooms.
The trunk of the coconut tree can be sold as high-quality wood, and the pith of the coconut tree can be kneaded into a coarse powder, and then processed by people to become the starch we are familiar with, and this starch is the staple food produced by the coconut tree in the West Valley.
The way people process it is is actually very simple: they will use tools to cut the trunk, then rub the trunk, then soak the trunk in water and wash it repeatedly, and then drain the water, so that the starch is left in it.
Although the starch produced by the coconut tree in the West Valley can be used as a staple food, it is delicious or not depends on the degree of subsequent processing.
- Simi ] —
When it comes to the unique coconut tree of the West Valley, we may feel strange and incredible, but when it comes to the processed products produced by the West Valley Coconut Tree, most people should be quite familiar with it.
The product of the coconut tree in the West Valley is none other than sago, which is not rice, nor artificial rice, but it is a staple food, that is, starch.
In daily life, we are no strangers to sago, we can see sago sold in supermarkets all over our country, and the ** of sago is not high, the particles are snow-white, it looks like rice, it is transparent after cooking, and it is elastic to eat.
The unique taste of sago makes it ideal for making sweet porridge or desserts, and this makes it very popular with consumers who love sweetness.
The common ingredient sago in the dessert industry is actually sago, and the soft and glutinous taste of sago dew has made countless people salivate.
That said, not all of the sago in our market is made from sago from the coconut trees of Nishigu.
The essence of sago is processed starch, and cassava, which is also high in starch, is the sixth largest food crop that feeds 600 million people in the tropical regions of South America, and cassava is not picky about the growing environment.
Cassava with high starch content, after processing, can also be transformed into the form of sago, and the pearls in the milk tea we often drink are actually processed from cassava.
Whether it is sago from the coconut of the West Valley or sago from cassava, the taste is not much different, just one from the heart of the coconut palm of the West Valley, and the other from the underground rhizome of cassava.
If you want to taste authentic sago from the heart of the coconut tree in the West Valley, the next time you buy sago, you can pay attention to the outer packaging of sago, if there are four words of tapioca starch, it means that this sago is the cassava version of sago.
——Other Functions·]—
The Nishigu coconut is not only a food crop that can produce sago, but also has many uses as a tree, and the cut down Nishigu coconut trunk itself is a high-quality wood, which is used to build a scenic wooden house, which can be described as warm in winter and cool in summer.
The bark of the Nishigu coconut can also be processed into textiles, and the starch produced in the Nishiya coconut can be made into plastic products in addition to sago.
In addition to the starch inside the Nishigu coconut can be made into sago for eating, the young leaves that have just grown on the Nishigu coconut can actually be stir-fried and eaten, and the taste is good.
The use of the coconut in the West Valley can be described as varied, but this magical coconut tree that does not grow coconuts, do you understand it now?
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