Sago pancake. Sago is often produced commercially in the form of "pearls" (small rounded starch aggregates, partly gelatinized by heating). Sago pearls can be boiled with water or milk and sugar to make a sweet sago pudding. Sago pearls are similar in appearance to the pearled starches of other origin, e.g. cassava starch (tapioca) and potato starch, and they may be used interchangeably in some dishes. The name "sago" is also sometimes used for starch extracted from other sources, especially the sago cycad, "Cycas revoluta". The sago cycad is also commonly known (confusingly) as the sago palm, although this is a
Castilla (plant) been extracted. The vernacular name is "Panama rubber tree" or "castilloa rubber". The pre-Columbian MesoAmericans used the latex of this plant to make a ball used in a ceremonial game. Rubber Castilla (plant) Castilla (sometimes incorrectly spelled "Castilloa") is a genus of 3 species of large trees in the flowering plant family Moraceae. The genus is native to Central and South America. This genus is named after Juan Diego del Castillo (d. 1793), a Spanish botanist who was a friend of Vicente Cervantes, who chose the name in his friend's honor. "Castilla" species are monoecious or dioecious trees up to