 The dried petioles (called "gaba-gaba" in Indonesian) are used to make walls and ceilings; they are very light, and therefore also used in the construction of rafts.The sago palm reproduces by fruiting.Each stem (trunk) in a sago palm clump flowers and fruits at the end of its life, but the sago palm as an individual organism lives on through its suckers (shoots that are continuously branching off a stem at or below ground level).