Talk:Nypa fruticans

just to start the talk page
nids 03:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)nidhish

Proper categories?
I think we should separate the categories.

Like for uses as food as one category, uses in industry, another category, and etc...

I hard a hard time recognising that this was indeed the tree of the atap-chee.

--BlueStream 04:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

barikolkol
we call the wine from coconut as 'lambanog' and the one from nipa as 'barikolkol'Merndirigma (talk) 16:22, 7 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I guess it differs from language to language? In Bisaya we do call it lambanog still.--  Obsidi ♠ n   Soul   23:18, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Tropical Asia is not individual nations
Another wiki editor chose to remove such categories as Flora of Cambodia from this page. I appreciate their work, but I disagree with this decision.

They argue that Flora of Cambodia is a "daughter-category" of Flora of Tropical Asia. 3 points, when I look at the category Flora of Cambodia, it does mention that it is,a sub-category of Flora of Indo-China, which itself is a sub-category of Flora of Southeast Asia, there is no linking to Flora of Tropical Asia. Secondly, when I, as a consumer, look at Flora of Cambodia, I would like to see the flora of Cambodia, not a generalised Flora of the larger region. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the Flora of Tropical Asia, the Flora of Indo-China, the Flora of Southeast Asia are generalised categories. They do not acknowledge differences and localisations in the floras of individual regions. Why not just lump everything into a Flora of the World category. By all means let's have regional floras but individual nations flora is important because of regional differences, because of localised interests and as a basic building block for the larger floras. Brunswicknic (talk) 00:04, 8 April 2020 (UTC)


 * This species has a broad distribution throughout tropical Asia and is not confined to Cambodia or Papua New Guinea. Therefore the broad regional category is appropriate and species should not be placed in both child and parent categories. See WikiProject Plants/World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions for the category scheme in use at WikiProject Plants. Declangi (talk) 00:34, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

I have read the category scheme. Papua New Guinea is not in Asia. Nypa is not in Tropical Southern and Western India, nor in Laos, Tropical Asia apparently does not include China. There is a category of Flora of Cambodia, there is a category of Endemic Flora of Cambodia, the latter applies to endemics, the first to flora shared with other nations. For the reasons given above I strongly disagree with this generalisation of flora across huge regions. In order to see what the Flora of Cambodia is the reader must know to check to not only the categories Endemic Flora and Flora of Cambodia, but also go through every entry in Flora of Indo-China, Flora of Southeast Asia (which is not listed in the above guidelines) and Flora of Tropical Asia in order to see which plants grow in Cambodia. That is ridiculous, readers who want to know the flora of Cambodia should be able to go to Flora of Cambodia. The higher categories should be built from the lower categories, not vice versa. I strongly disagree with the guidelines.

However, they are guidelines, I will not revert your reversion again, but I doth protest. Thank you for work and your sharing with me, best wishes to you and yours Declangi. Brunswicknic (talk) 00:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Ecology - what animals besides humans eat nipa fruits?
The title explains it all really - are there any significant animals besides humans which eat nipa fruits/seeds? I'm quite surprised at the paucity of this info online. -Corsican Warrah (talk to me) 13:05, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Legal status and regulation
The Nypa palm and its products are mostly unknown outside of SE Asia. For the sake of clarity and general information, I propose including a sentence in the article that states something like "The plant and its products are have no known legal (or other) classification in any territory, except for a proposal of "vulnerable" status in Singapore. Where the plant's products are used to manufacture alcohol or biofuel, of course, individual countries' laws regulate these biochemicals."

Citation for "vulnerable" status is Singapore: [Research paper, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore](https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/06/2010nis045-052.pdf)

If there are no objections I will add the above after 18 April 2024. venzen (talk) 04:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * To be included, content should comply with the verifiability policy. Sean.hoyland (talk) 04:21, 13 April 2024 (UTC)