Palm sugar sap ('toddy') from the flowers. The date palm has two species, "Phoenix dactylifera" and "P. sylvestris", and both are sources of palm sugar. "P. dactylifera" is common in the Mediterranean and Middle East. "P. sylvestris" is native to Asia, mainly Pakistan and India. Date palms are cultivated mainly for dates. Palm sugar is made from the tree's sap. The nipa palm ("Nypa fruticans") is native to the coastlines and tropical regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the only palm tree that grows in a watery mangrove biome. Only its leaves and flowers grow above water. Palm sugar
Silver fruit-eating bat terrain between . They feed on fruits found in the canopy of tropical to temperate forests and roost under cut leaves of banana or palm trees during the day. They breed throughout the year, but with two distinct peaks. There are no recognised subspecies, although this was not the case prior to 2008, when the Bogota fruit-eating bat ("Dermanura bogotensis"), of Venezuela and the Guianas, was raised to full species status. Silver fruit-eating bat The silver fruit-eating bat ("Dermanura glauca") is a South American bat species of the family Phyllostomidae. The silver fruit-eating bat is a small bat, measuring only