Suwah marks the third (and final) fishing season for the year; it is also the time to start planting rice, sago palm and other crops.

The club's three dozen members have indeed kept the cycads, jade plants, Norfolk pines, 50-year-old sago palm, and other foliage healthy.

The other staple of their existence is a gruel made from the sago palm.

The name "Rumbia" comes from a type of palm tree known as the sago palm.

The sago palm is an example.

As for the sago palm, one tree yields 1,800 cakes, enough to feed a man for a year.

The chemical is found in the seeds of the cycad, Cycas circinalis, the "false sago palm."

Their diet was based on the sago palm and they also practiced shifting cultivation.

Ambuyat is a dish derived from the interior trunk of the sago palm.

Much of their diet was based on the sago palm.