ubo4dUbod or heart of palm comes from the center of coconut trees trunks. So in order to get it you have to bring down a whole coconut tree to get the heart. Unlike banana heart that it grows out of the tree. Ubod is usually cooked toUbod, the meristematic tissues of several palm species, bamboo and banana, are widely used mostly by rural communities in the Philippines. Usually excised from specific parts of the plant