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Family • Arecaceae
Pisa
Areca hutchinsoniana Becc.
SACKING TREE

Scientific names Common names
Areca hutchinsoniana Becc. Pisa (Yak.)
Areca mammillata Becc. var mindanoensis Becc. Pitha (Sub.)
  Sambulayan (Sub.)
  Areca palm (Engl.)
  Sacking tree (Engl.)


Botany
Pisa is a slender palm, with a stem about 15 centimeters in diameter. Leaves are about a meter long. Fruits are narrowly ellipsoid-oblong or subfusiform, about 3 centimeters long and 9 millimeters in diameter.

Distribution
- In primary forests at low altitudes in Lanoa and Zamboanga Provinces in Mindanao, and in Basilan.
- Considered endemic species in the Philippines.

Parts utilized
Buds

Uses
Folkloric
Raw terminal bud given to children as vermifuge.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Last Update December 2011
IMAGE SOURCE: Public Domain / File:Koeh-014.jpg / Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen / 1897 / Wikimedia Commons
 
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