Areca Palm Care. Here are the main care requirements for growing an Areca palm: Choose a location with bright, full, or filtered sunlight. Water whenever the soil starts to dry out.

He added: "Leave the top inch of soil enough time to dry out between waterings." As for lighting levels, the "best place for a palm areca plant is a spot with bright, indirect light".

Now the areca palm mostly serves as a traditional symbolic offering in wedding ceremonies rather than as source of an item for daily consumption. Betel nut or areca nut is the seed of the areca palm ...

For example, in India, the areca nut—known colloquially as the betel nut—grows on towering areca palm trees that ordinarily have to be manually scaled to harvest the seed.

N Ramesh Chandran (in red) and students of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan plant seeds of areca palm at the school’s Salt Lake campus on Monday. Picture by Bishwarup Dutta A 62-year-old man, who wants to make ...

Areca nut or betel nut, commonly known as ‘supari’ in India is the seed of the areca palm. Its scientific name is ‘Areca catechu’ and belongs to the ‘Arecaceae’ family. Areca nut is used as a medicine ...