Editing Hyphaene petersiana (section)

===General:===
The plant is used extensively by the locals;
the leaves for roofing, and basket weaving,
the hard white nut for carving,
and the sap for a wine known locally as mochema.
Unfortunately the sap collecting is often fatal to the tree,
so the palm is now becoming rare around some of the more populated areas.
This palm's fruits are a favourite food of elephants,
which will bump the trees in order to dislodge the fruit.
This is swallowed whole, the flesh digested,
and then the seed is excreted in
its own little pile of manure, all ready to germinate.
Etosha National Park, Northern Namibia.