槟榔树与棕榈树是显示热带风光的姐妹植物,它的“祖籍”在马来西亚半岛,侨居到中国已有一千五、六百年的历史。我国台湾、云南和广东省海南岛等地很早就有种植。《名医别录》云:“槟榔生南海。”《图经本草》载:“今岭外州郡皆有之。”但它对于气候要求较严,即使在海南岛,也只有在东、中、南部气候炎热,雨量充沛,土地肥沃的低山地,才能生长良好。对槟榔树形态的记述,晋朝名士嵇含在《南方草木状》中写道:“树高十余丈,皮似青铜,节如桂竹,森秀无柯,端顶有叶,叶似甘蕉,条脉开破,仰望眇眇,如插丛蕉于竹杪:风至独动,似举羽扇之扫开。”以后学者对它屡有描写。宋赵汝适撰《诸番志》云:“木如棕榈,结子叶间如柳 Areca and palm trees are tropical plants and sisters. Their “ancestral home” is in Peninsular Malaysia and has been living in China for a thousand and six hundred years. China’s Taiwan, Yunnan and Hainan Island in Guangdong Province have long been planted. The famous doctor said: “Betel nut is born in the South China Sea.” “Illustrated by Materia Medica” contains: “Today, Lingzhou County Jie Jie.” But it is more stringent requirements for the climate, even in Hainan Island, only in the East, , The southern climate is hot, abundant rainfall, fertile land in low mountains, to grow well. For the description of the areca shape, the famous Jin dynasty in the Jin dynasty wrote in the “southern vegetation”: “The height of a tree is more than ten feet, and the skin is like bronze. The festival is like a bamboo, Banana, broken lines, looking up, such as inserted banana in bamboo shoots: the wind to the only move, it seems to lift the lupus sweep away. ”Later scholars often describe it. Song Zhao Ru Shih Chuan “Fan Zhi” cloud: "wood, such as palm, knot leaves such as Liu