33-410: (Redirected from NYPA ) Nypa or NYPA may refer to: Nypa (plant) , a genus of palms New York Power Authority Not Your Personal Army , a phrase commonly used by Anonymous See also [ edit ] Nipa (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
66-477: A bowling complex and a car showroom. The major insurer Liverpool Victoria is situated towards the east of the boundary in a large building contained within the County Gates Roundabout. Along Alder Road are a number of small independent shops. This area is known locally as "Alder Parade". Branksome is served by hourly South Western Railway trains, calling at Branksome railway station on
99-464: A number of commercial and industrial areas. It borders Parkstone , another small Poole suburb, to the west and north west, Alder Hills to the north east, Branksome Park (a more affluent forested area) to the south and Westbourne (a suburb of Bournemouth , Poole's conurbation neighbour) to the east. Until the late 19th century the area was mainly unbuilt heath and woodlands. With the development and growth of nearby Bournemouth and later Poole
132-530: Is fed to pigs during the dry season. This is said to impart a sweet flavour to the meat. The young leaves are dried, bleached and cut to wrap tobacco for smoking, this practice is also found in Sumatra . In Cambodia, this palm is called ចាក cha:k ; its leaves are used to cover roofs. Roof thatching with the leaves occurs in many places in Papua New Guinea. In some coastal areas, the rachis
165-441: Is globular made of many seed segments, each seed has a fibrous husk covering the endosperm that allows it to float. The stalk droops as the fruits mature. When they reach that stage, the ripe seeds separate from the ball and float away on the tide, occasionally germinating while still water-borne. While only one species of Nypa now exists, N. fruticans , with a natural distribution extending from Northern Australia through
198-741: Is home to Bishop Aldhelm's CE Primary School. Branksome lies partly within the UK Parliamentary constituency of Poole and partly within Bournemouth West . The unitary authority ward is Alderney and Bourne Valley , and is represented by Councillors Adrian Chapmanlaw, Rachel Maidment and Tony Trent, on Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Council . From 1894 to 1905 Branksome was an urban district, Branksome Urban District Council's former headquarters were made into an Elderly Persons' dwelling in 1987 and called Bob Hann House after Robert George Hann , Mayor of Poole 1968/69, who
231-511: Is ready to be tapped when the unripe fruits are at their peak sweetness. The cluster is cut from the stalk about six inches down, and mud is rubbed on the stalk to induce sap flow. Sap begins flowing immediately if the fruit maturity was correctly gauged. A bamboo tube or a bottle is fitted over the cut stalk and the sap is collected twice daily, cutting a half centimeter slice off the end of the stalk after each collection to prevent it from gumming over. Sap flow will continue for 30 days per stalk, and
264-534: Is situated to the northern end of the parish and is known as the Sharp Road Industrial Estate. Just outside the parish and to the west lies another substantial industrial area which includes a post office sorting office and other commercial developments. Branksome has three main supermarkets. Along the A35 (Poole Road) there are a number of small independent retailers including fast food outlets,
297-473: Is used for walls in houses, and the leaflets are used for ornaments. The epidermises of the leaves are used as cigarette papers . The young flower stalk and hard seeds are edible and provide hydration. In the Philippines and Malaysia, the inflorescence can be "tapped" to yield a sweet, edible sap collected to produce a local alcoholic beverage called tuba , bahal , or tuak . A fruit cluster
330-847: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Vietnam , Laos , Malay Peninsula , north of Singapore , all of Borneo , Java , Maluku , the Philippines, Sulawesi , Sumatra , the Bismarck Archipelago , New Guinea, the Solomon Islands , the Caroline Islands , and Australia ( Queensland and the Northern Territory ). It is reportedly naturalized in Nigeria, the Society Islands of French Polynesia ,
363-511: The Cretaceous through the Eocene, making its last appearance in the fossil record of North and South America in the late Eocene. Assuming the habitat of extinct Nypa is similar to that of the extant species N. fruticans , the presence of Nypa fossils may indicate monsoonal or at least seasonal rainfall regimes, and likely tropical climates. The worldwide distribution of Nypa in
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#1732797508019396-514: The Daily Echo reports in February 2022 that the supermarket chain is now hopeful that a decision on its revised plans for a new store on the disused sweet factory site will be made "in the near future". The second area is situated on the old Gas Works site near to Yarmouth Road and Bourne Valley Road, known as Branksome Business Park it contains a number of industrial units. The third area
429-799: The Indonesian Archipelago and the Philippine Islands up to China, the genus Nypa once had a nearly global distribution in the Eocene (56–33.4 million years ago). Fossil mangrove palm pollen from India has been dated to 70 million years ago. Fossil fruits and seeds of Nypa have been described from the Maastrichtian and Danian sediments of the Dakhla Formation of Bir Abu Minqar, South Western Desert, Egypt . Fossilized nuts of Nypa dating to
462-626: The Mariana Islands , Panama , and Trinidad . Japan 's Iriomote Island and its neighboring Uchibanari Island are the most northern limit of the distribution. Long-tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) are known to eat the fruits of the nipa palm. Proboscis monkeys in the Padas Damit Forest Reserve have been observed eating the inflorescences. Bornean orangutans eat nipa palm hearts and shoots. Fungal species Tirisporella beccariana has been found on
495-606: The South West Main Line between Weymouth and London Waterloo . However the closure of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway cut the direct line linking to Bath . Branksome has bus links to many areas of Bournemouth and Poole. As of November 2022 Branksome is served by morebus services m1, m2, 15, 16, 17, 20 and U2. National Express coaches call at Branksome, Poole Road with services to London Victoria , Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport . Branksome
528-618: The Wallisdown and Canford Heath areas, as well as a large and popular park known as the Branksome Recreation Ground, which is home to Parkstone Cricket Club. Branksome merges with the area known as Branksome Park , an area of more expensive properties. There are three main areas of commercial development within the Branksome Parish. The main area, Poole Retail Park (sometimes known as Redlands after
561-484: The nipa palm (or simply nipa , from Malay : nipah ) or mangrove palm , is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans . It is the only palm considered adapted to the mangrove biome . The genus Nypa and the subfamily Nypoideae are monotypic taxa because this species is their only member. Unlike most palms, the nipa palm's trunk grows beneath
594-639: The Eocene occur in the sandbeds of Branksome, Dorset , and in London Clay on the Isle of Sheppey , Kent, England. A fossil species, N. australis , has been described from Early Eocene sediments at Macquarie Harbour on the western coast of Tasmania . Fossils of Nypa have also been recovered from throughout the New World , in North and South America , dating from at least the Maastrichtian period of
627-418: The Eocene, especially in deposits from polar latitudes, is supporting evidence that the Eocene was a time of global warmth, prior to the formation of modern polar icecaps at the end of the Eocene. Nipa palms grow in soft mud and slow-moving tidal and river waters that bring in nutrients. They can be found as far inland as the tide can deposit the floating nuts. They are common on coasts and rivers flowing into
660-631: The Indian and Pacific Oceans, from India to the Pacific Islands . The palm will survive occasional short-term drying of its environment. Despite the name "mangrove palm" and its prevalence in coastal areas, it is only moderately salt tolerant and suffers if exposed to pure seawater; it prefers the brackish waters of estuaries . It is considered native to China ( Hainan ), the Ryukyu Islands , Bangladesh, Indian subcontinent , Sri Lanka,
693-554: The Poole Retail Park area is a series of industrial buildings that were associated with the former confectionary factory that ceased operating in 2013. BCP Council approved plans for the site to be turned into a 70-bed residential care home with 32 extra care apartments in 2016. Aldi purchased the site in 2018, and made an unsuccessful bid to seek planning approval to turn it into a supermarket in August 2020. Despite this,
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#1732797508019726-568: The area became popular as a place to live, mainly because the area was relatively undeveloped but yet was within commuting distance between Poole and Bournemouth. The Branksome Urban District was created by the Local Government Act 1894 and absorbed into the municipal borough of Poole in 1905 With the development of the railways, Branksome continued to grow, served by the new Victorian line between Wimborne , Poole and Bournemouth. Branksome railway station , which still serves
759-720: The area today, helped encourage a massive growth in the early 20th century. Most of the houses in Branksome today are from the Edwardian period and before the Second World War except for a 1970s development off of Winston Avenue known as the Farnham Estate and also a small amount of in-filling. The area became an official suburb of Poole in the 1960s and by the 1980s almost all open areas of Branksome were built upon. The area however still has some heathland towards
792-543: The flower petals can be infused to make an aromatic tisane . Attap chee ( Chinese : 亞答子 ; pinyin : yà dá zǐ ) ( chee meaning "seed" in several Chinese dialects) is a name for the immature fruits —sweet, translucent, gelatinous balls used as a dessert ingredient in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore, that are a byproduct of the sap harvesting process. In Indonesia, especially in Java and Bali ,
825-483: The ground; only the leaves and flower stalk grow upwards above the surface. The leaves extend up to 9 metres (30 feet) in height. The flowers are a globular inflorescence of female flowers at the tip with catkin -like red or yellow male flowers on the lower branches. The flower produces woody nuts arranged in a globular cluster up to 25 centimetres (10 inches) across on a single stalk. The infructescence can weigh as much as sixty-six pounds (thirty kg). The fruit
858-516: The mangrove palm, as well as Phomatospora nypae on palms in Malaysia. The long, feathery leaves of the nipa palm are used by local populations as roof material for thatched houses or dwellings . The leaves are also used in many types of basketry and thatching. Because they are buoyant , large stems are used to train swimmers in Burma. On the islands of Roti and Savu , nipa palm sap
891-561: The nipa flowers continuously throughout the year, providing a continuous supply of sap. Tuba can be stored in tapayan (earthenware balloon vases) for several weeks to make a kind of vinegar known as sukang paombong in the Philippines and cuka nipah in Malaysia. Tuba can also be distilled to make arrack , locally known as lambanog in Filipino and arak or arak nipah in Indonesian . Young shoots are also edible;
924-500: The nipa palm does not detract from food production to make fuel. In fact, since nipa fruit is an inevitable byproduct of sap production, it produces both food and fuel simultaneously. Branksome, Dorset Branksome ( / ˈ b r æ ŋ k s əm / ) is a suburb of Poole , in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset , England. The area consists of residential properties and also
957-515: The pipe factory once on the site) is situated along the main Poole to Bournemouth A35 . It is a commercial and shopping area. The John Lewis store named John Lewis at Home opened in Branksome on 22 October 2009. The £6 million development is one-third of the size of a normal John Lewis department store and is the first of a new experimental format for the retailer focusing exclusively on homeware. Accessed from Alder Road but essentially part of
990-401: The sap can be used to make a variant of Jaggery called gula nipah . In Sarawak , it is called gula apong . In Thailand, leaf is used for dessert. In Cambodia, its leaves are used for wrapping cakes (such as num katâm ), and the flowers are sometimes used to make sugar, vinegar, and alcohol. The nipa palm produces a very high yield of sugar-rich sap. Fermented into ethanol or butanol,
1023-617: The sap may allow the production of 6480–20,000 liters per hectare per year of fuel. By contrast, sugarcane yields roughly 5200 liters of ethanol per hectare per year, and an equivalent area planted in corn (maize) would produce only roughly 4000 liters per hectare per year, before accounting for the energy costs of the cultivation and alcohol extraction. Unlike corn and sugarcane, nipa palm sap requires little if any fossil fuel energy to produce from an established grove, does not require arable land , and can make use of brackish water instead of freshwater resources. Also unlike most energy crops ,
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1056-476: The title Nypa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nypa&oldid=745093208 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nypa (plant) Nypa fruticans , commonly known as
1089-507: Was Chairman of the Poole Borough Housing Committee from 1973 until his death in 1986. On 30 December 1894 Branksome Urban District became a separate civil parish from Kinson . On 9 November 1905 the parish was abolished and merged with Poole. In 1901 the parish had a population of 8095. It is now in the unparished area of Poole. The parish church of Branksome is St Aldhelm's Church which falls within
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