stem of rumbia and fruit

Fruit rumbia

Stem rumbia

Boh meuria, Latin latin Metroxylon sagu. If the national language of rumbia fruit. Rumbia or also called sago tree is the name of a palm-producing sago palm. Rumbia usually grows in freshwater swamps, rivers and other droughts. In the appropriate areas, the palms can form a vast sago plantation or forest. In the village community usually leaves rumbia used as a roof of houses, roofs of cottages in the garden or rice fields.

In Aceh, there is a lot of rumbia in Meulaboh, West Aceh. In the past, during the heyday of rumbia fruit, if people go to Meulaboh must buy grapes as souvenirs. The fruit of rumbia is somewhat similar to the fruit of bark, if the fruit scales rags rather large, it feels kelat, but if the old feeling kelatnya slightly lost and began to arise a little sweet taste, if you want to eat marinated first, new delicious to eat. If not marinated most steadily eaten with patarana or pliek `u.

In our village, once a lot of rumbia is this but whatever the cause of rumbia fruit is rarely found even no more. One or two trees can be found in the villages but no longer fruitful.

In addition to salted, boh meria is usually eaten together with rujak, used as one mixture broken along with other fruits. Because the fruit is difficult to obtain rumbia rujak sellers replace it with young bananas. Though rujak with meuria boh very delicious.

When I was a child, the branches of grass or peanut meuria are often used for raw materials for making cars. It took the struggle to get the best branch of rumbia, sometimes we had to go into the bushes to find a large, thick and dry rumbia midrib.

For today's modern era, the fruits of grapefruit began to be unpopular again to be eaten especially among the Kemeren afternoons who fondly eat melon fruit, apples, grapes and so forth. Most who still want to enjoy the fruit of rumbia are the old people who like traditional food. Cars from the peulepah meria never found again in the villages since the birth of modern toys that instant so the creativity of children is now very limited