Borassus flabellifer (তাল গাছ) Part-1

Tal tree (তাল গাছ)

 Borassus flabellifer (তাল গাছ): is a powerful tree and can achieve a stature of 30 meters (98 ft). The storage compartment is dim, powerful and ringed with leaf scars; old departs stay connected to the storage compartment for quite a while before falling neatly. The leaves are fan-molded and 3 m (9.8 ft) long, with hearty dark teeth on the petiole edges. Like all Borassus species, B. flabellifer is dioecious with male and female blooms on partitioned plants. The male blooms are under 1 cm long and frame semi-roundabout bunches, which are covered up underneath scale-like bracts inside the catkin-like inflorescences. Conversely, the female blooms are golfball-sized and single, sitting upon the surface of the inflorescence pivot. After fertilization, these blossoms form into beefy natural products 15–25 cm wide, each containing 1-3 seeds. The organic products are dark to darker with sweet, sinewy mash and each seed is encased inside a woody endocarp. Youthful palmyra seedlings develop gradually, creating just a couple leaves every year (foundation stage), yet at a so far undetermined time, they develop quickly, delivering a generous stem.

তালের শাঁস

The organic product measures 10 cm (3.9 in) to 18 cm (7.1 in) in distance across, has a dark husk, and is borne in bunches. The top bit of the organic product must be sliced off to uncover the sweet jam seed attachments, translucent pale-white, like that of the lychee however with a milder flavor and no pit. The sweet jam seed attachments happen in mixes of two, three or four seeds inside the organic product. The jam some portion of the natural product is secured with a thin, yellowish-dark colored skin. These are known to contain watery liquid inside the plump white body. These seed attachments have been the motivation behind specific desserts Sandesh called Jalbhara (জলভরা) found in Bengal.

The customary way this natural product is eaten is the point at which the external packaging is as yet unripe while the seeds are eaten as the organic product. Yet, in the event that the whole organic product is left to age, the stringy external layer of the palm natural products can likewise be eaten crude, bubbled, or broiled. At the point when this happens, the organic product takes a purple-blackish tint and tastes like coconut substance. The skin is likewise eaten as a feature of the organic product like how mango skins are regularly expended alongside the natural product. Bengali People have idealized the specialty of making different sweet dishes with the yellowish thick fluidic substance got from a ready palm natural product. These incorporate Mustard oil seared Taler Bora, on the other hand browned in Sunflower oil (তালের বড়া), or blended with thickened drain to frame Taal-kheer (তাল ক্ষীর).

Getting the sap customarily includes tapping the top shoots and gathering the dribbling juice in hanging earthen pots. The juice so gathered before morning is invigorating and light drink called Thaati Kallu (থাতি কাল্লু) in Telugu, Neera (নীরা) in Marathi and "Pathaneer" (পাটানীর) in Tamil is to a great degree cool in sensation, and has a sugary sweet taste.[citation needed] The juice gathered in night or after maturation ends up plainly sharp, and is called Tadi (তাঁড়ি) in Marathi. Tadi is expended for the most part by beach front villagers Maharashtra as a crude hard beverage.[citation needed]

A sugary sap called flavor, can be gotten from the youthful inflorescence, either male or female. Hard stuff is aged to make a drink called arrack, or it is concentrated to an unrefined sugar called jaggery or Taal Patali (তাল পাটালী) in Bengali and Pana Vellam or Karuppukatti  in Tamil. It is called Gula Jawa (Javanese sugar) in Indonesia, and is broadly utilized as a part of Javanese food. Furthermore, the tree sap is taken as a purgative, and is accepted to have therapeutic virtues that have likewise been credited to other parts of the plant.

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