Palarasul
Kava Powder - Palarasul
Noble Palarasul kava from Vanuatu – natural botanical colorant.
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Noble cultivar · Vanuatu
Palarasul
Palarasul is one of the three most planted cultivars on Espiritu Santo and one of the most common kavas in Vanuatu's own nakamals. Nearly all of it is used locally, which is why it appears less often in export catalogues than Borongoru or Melo Melo.
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Registered for
- Espiritu Santo
- Legal class
- noble
- Form
- Root powder
Published chemotypes
A chemotype is a six-digit code that orders the six major kavalactones from largest to smallest share: 1 desmethoxyyangonin, 2 dihydrokavain, 3 yangonin, 4 kavain, 5 dihydromethysticin, 6 methysticin. Vanuatu's register uses it to distinguish noble from non-noble cultivars. Published codes for the same cultivar can differ by source, island and plant age.
Sold as a fine root powder. Three of the four published chemotypes agree on kavain, dihydrokavain and dihydromethysticin as the first three kavalactones; one vendor also reports 7.25% total kavalactones for its batch.
Listed as a noble cultivar in Vanuatu's Kava Act No. 7 of 2002, Schedule, Table 1.
| Chemotype | Source |
|---|---|
| 423156 | Nakamal at Home |
| 423156 | Art of Kava |
| 423165 | Kava Society New Zealand |
| 246531 | Kava Forums chemotype thread |
How it is grown and processed
Kava (Piper methysticum) does not set viable seed; every plant is a cutting of an older one, which is why cultivars stay stable over generations. Plants are grown in shade at first, then in open plantations, and harvested after three to five years when the root mass has developed. The roots are washed, sun- or shade-dried and milled; our powders are milled from the root only, not from stems or leaves.
Other cultivars
In the European Union, Kavaha products are sold as natural botanical colorants for external use only.