Betel palm
ಅಡಿಕೆगुवाవక్కల చెట్టు
Areca catechu L.
- light
- —
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 18 m
- wide
- 8.0 m
Arecaceae
Formerly Areca macrocarpa
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- PhilippinesKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 18 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 20–20 m; Plants for a Future 15–15 m
- Spread
- 8.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Wikipedia page does not state medium: it only mentions a preference for moist, well-drained soil, no watering level
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Czech
- areka obecná
- Malayalam
- കമുങ്ങ്, അടയ്ക്കാമരം, അടക്കാമരം
- German
- Betelnusspalme
- Chinese
- 檳榔, 大果槟榔, 大腹皮
- Finnish
- Pähkinäbetelpalmu
- French
- Palmier à bétel
- Armenian
- Արեկնի, փուփլե
- Dutch
- betelpalm
- Russian
- Бетелевая пальма
- Slovenian
- betlova palma
- Simplified Chinese
- 大腹子, 宾门, 槟榔
- Hindi
- गुवा, गूआ, गुवाक
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3D model: Areca catechu (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.