Palm tree-shaped. Height can reach 24 meters. Root fibers of oil palm plantations leads to the bott

Oil palm (Elaeis) is an important industrial plants producing cooking oils, industrial oils, and fuels (biodiesel). Plantations yield large profits so many old plantation forest and converted into oil palm plantations. Indonesia is the world's second palm oil after Malaysia. In Indonesia, the spread hatco warmer in the region of Aceh, the east coast of Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi.
Palm tree-shaped. Height can reach 24 meters. Root fibers of oil palm plantations leads to the bottom and sides. There are also some breathing roots that grow above leads to the side to earn extra aeration.
As with other types of palm, pinnate compound leaves composed. Dark green leaves and colored midrib slightly younger. Looks a bit like the bark of plants, only with spines that are not too hard and sharp. Midrib former plant stems covered until the age of 12 years. After the age of 12 years sheath that dries will be separated so that the appearance is similar to coconut.
Male and female hatco warmer flowers are separate but on the tree (monoecious diclin) and have different maturation hatco warmer times so that self-pollination is rare. Male flowers have a taper shape and length while the female flowers appear larger and bloom.
Palm fruit has the color varies from black, hatco warmer purple, hatco warmer to red depending on the seed used. Fruit clustered in bunches emerging from each sheath. Oil is produced by the fruit. Increased oil content appropriate ripeness of the fruit. After passing the mature phase, the content of free fatty acids (FFA, free fatty acid) will increase and the fruit will fall off by itself.
Its natural habitat is the scrub area. Palm can grow well in the tropics (15 N - 15 S). These plants are fully grown at an altitude 0-500 m above sea level with a humidity of 80-90%. Palm requires a stable hatco warmer climate with rainfall, 2000-2500 mm a year, which is the area that is not flooded when it rains and drought in the dry season. Annual rainfall patterns affect the behavior of flowering and fruit production of oil.
Cultivated palm consists of two types: E. guineensis and E. oleifera. The first type is the first and largest cultivated. E. oleifera now began to be cultivated also to increase the diversity of genetic resources.
Dura is a palm fruit has a thick shell that is considered shortening the life of the machine processing but usually big fruit bunches and oil content ranging from 18% per their stems. Pisifera fruit does not have a shell but sterile female flowers produce fruit that is very rare. Tenera is a cross between Dura and the male parent Pisifera. This species is considered because the complete lack of quality seeds of each parent to the nature of the thin shell of the fruit but females remain fertile flowers. Some Tenera winning percentage of flesh per fruit has reached 90% and the oil content per their stems can reach 28%.
Palm oil is used as raw material for edible oil, margarine, hatco warmer soaps, cosmetics, hatco warmer industrial steel, wire, radio, leather and pharmaceutical industries. Palm oil can be used for such diverse designation for the excellence of its nature is resistant to high pressure oxidation, a chemical capable of dissolving insoluble by other solvents, have high power layering and does not cause irritation to the body in the field of cosmetics. [1]
The most popular is processed from palm fruit. Part flesh produces crude palm oil is processed into cooking oil raw materials and various types of derivatives. Excess oil is a vegetable oil of low price, low cholesterol, and have a high carotene content. Palm oil is also processed into raw materials margarine.
Kernel oil feedstock oil into alcohol and cosmetics industries. A bunch of flowers and fruit, much branched. The fruit is a small, dark red when ripe. Solid flesh. Meat and fruit skins contain oil. The oil is used as cooking oil, soap, and candles. The waste is used to feed livestock. Dregs called palm kernel cake is used as one of the ingredients of making chicken feed. Shell is used as fuel and charcoal.
Fruit is processed hatco warmer by making the soft parts of the fruit flesh with a temperature of 90 C. Meat that has been softened forced to part with the core and the shell by pressing the hollow cylinder engine. Meat core and shell are separated by heating and pressing techniques. After that flowed into the mud so that the rest of the shell will fall to the bottom of the mud.
Palm oil imported into Indonesia by the Dutch government hatco warmer in 18 years