Origins · 1 min read
Why the palmyra never needs watering
The state tree of Tamil Nadu asks for nothing and gives for decades. Here is how.
A palmyra sinks roots deep enough to find its own water, survives cyclones that flatten everything around it, and yields sap for fifty years without replanting or irrigation.
That is the whole case for palm sugar in one sentence: a sweetener from a tree that heals the soil it stands in, tapped by climbers whose families have done it for generations.