It is very spiny, sometimes creeping up to 6 m high. The stem is usually underground.
Its fruit is the "salak" or "snake fruit" (salak means snake in Javanese and Sundanese), it is a large oval or fusiform drupe 5 to 8 cm long covered with hard brown scales reminiscent of the skin of a snake.
Its flesh is white with a...
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