Compared with Southeast Asian betel nut, is Hainan betel nut more suitable for chewing due to its fine fiber?

Compared with Southeast Asian areca nut, Hainan areca nut has fine fiber and is more suitable for chewing.

Hainan betel nut accounts for 99% of the country's betel nut production. Compared with Southeast Asian betel nut, Hainan betel nut not only has soft fiber and chewing resistance, but also has high alkaloid content, which has obvious quality advantages. With the continuous development of deep processing technology and its consumption as a non-staple food

With the increase, the cultivation of Hainan betel nut has great potential.

Introduction to Areca Nut Betel nut is an evergreen tree of the monocotyledonous plant class, Prima order, Palmaceae, Betel nut genus, with upright stems, tree-like, more than 10 meters high, up to 30 meters high, with obvious ring-shaped leaf marks, and is monoecious.

The inflorescence is multi-branched, the ovary is oblong, the fruits are oblong or ovoid, and the seeds are oval. The flowering and fruiting period lasts from March to April.

Betel nut is native to Malaysia and is mainly distributed in tropical areas such as Yunnan, Hainan and Taiwan in China.

It is widely cultivated in tropical Asia.

Morphological characteristics: The stem is upright, tree-like, more than 10 meters high, up to 30 meters high, with obvious annular leaf marks.

The leaves are clustered on the top of the stem, 1.3-2 meters long, with many pinnae, hairless on both sides, narrow and lanceolate, 30-60 cm long and 2.5-4 cm wide. The upper pinnae are conjoined and there are irregular tooth cracks at the top.

Monoecious, the inflorescence is multi-branched, the inflorescence axis is thick and flattened, the branches are zigzag, 25-30 cm long, the upper part is slender, bearing 1 or 2 rows of male flowers, while the female flowers are solitary at the base of the branches.

Male flowers are small, sessile, usually solitary, rarely opposite, with sepals ovate, less than 1 mm long, petals oblong, 4-6 mm long, 6 stamens, short filaments, and 3 vestigial pistils.

Linear; female flowers are larger, sepals are oval, petals are nearly round, 1.2-1.5 cm long, 6 staminodes are reduced, connate; ovary is oblong.

The fruit is oblong or ovoid, 3-5 cm long, orange-yellow, with thick and fibrous mesocarp.

The seeds are oval, truncated at the base, the endosperm is chewy, and the embryo base is raw.

The flowering and fruiting period is from March to April.