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Palmyrah (Borassusflabellifer) fruit is mostly used as fresh fruit, because of its perishable nature it is traditionally preserved as dried fruit pulp called as pinattu (fruit leather). It contained pectin as well as contain appreciable amount of saponinbecause of that fruit pulp having important medicinal properties. Considering these facts the phytochemical constituents of solvent extracts of pinattuwas identified and evaluated. Samples was collected from the three different branches ofPalmyrah Development Board. Pinattu, boiled odiyal flour and odiyal flour contained 16.6±(0.008), 11.66±(0.001), 10.66±0.001 g/100g of moisture, 2.23±0.062, 6.51±0.062, 6.7813±0.06 g/100g of protein, 0.08±0.001, 0.28±0.008, 0.43±0.013 g/100g of Fat, 0.04±0.001, 0.02±0.0003, 0.02±0.0002 g/100g of Ash, 5.06±0.01, 7.13±0.18, 4.49±0.15 g/100g of crude fiber and (75.91±0.61, 74.37±0.65, 77.59±0.5 g/100g of carbohydrate respectively. There were significant different (p<0.05) between the each samples for all the nutrient content except moisture content.

Inflorescence primordia in the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) differentiate within axillary buds in November in the Coachella Valley, California. The rachillae are initiated as small mounds without subtending bracts on the flattened apex of the rachis and are enclosed by the prophyll. A single bract subtends each flower primordium. Flower primordia are initiated in an acropetal sequence along the rachillae. Although mature flowers are functionally unisexual, early development is similar in staminate and pistillate flowers. Six perianth parts are initiated within two alternating whorls: the sepals and the petals. Six stamens are initiated in two alternating whorls of three stamens each, the first opposite the sepals and the second opposite the petals. Lastly, three separate carpels are initiated. Pistillate and staminate flowers are identical and apparently bisexual at this stage. The two flower types diverge developmentally when the stamens become bilobed and elongate in the staminate but not the pistillate flowers. The pistillodes in the staminate flowers form rudimentary stigmatic surfaces at the tip of the carpels and meristematic lumps corresponding to the position of the ovule in normal carpels. The staminodes mature in the pistillate flowers as small triangular projections. Meiosis occurred in staminate and pistillate flowers (in March 1979) when the staminate flowers were about 5 mm long and the pistillate flowers were about 3 mm long.