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Elaeis guineensis, the African oil palm, the major palm oil crop species; but also: Attalea maripa, the maripa palm; Cocos nucifera, the coconut palm, which yields coconut oil from its seeds; Elaeis oleifera, the American oil palm; The genus Elaeis, with just two species, E. guineensis and E. oleifera, referred to as the oil-palm genus
Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly just called oil palm but also sometimes African oil palm or macaw-fat. [3] The first Western person to describe it and bring back seeds was the French naturalist Michel Adanson .
Elaeis (from Greek 'oil') is a genus of palms, called oil palms, containing two species, native to Africa and the Americas. They are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil . Description
Oil palms (Elaeis guineensis) Humans used oil palms as far back as 5,000 years. In the late 1800s, archaeologists discovered a substance that they concluded was originally palm oil in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3,000 BCE. [9] Palm oil from Elaeis guineensis has long been recognized in West and Central African countries used widely as a ...
Elaeis oleifera is a species of palm commonly called the American oil palm.It is native to South and Central America from Honduras to northern Brazil. [2] [3] [4] [5]Unlike its relative Elaeis guineensis, the African oil palm, it is rarely planted commercially to produce palm oil, but hybrids between the two species are, [6] mainly in efforts to provide disease resistance and to increase the ...
Elaeis melanococca can refer to: Elaeis melanococca Gaertn., a synonym of Elaeis guineensis , the African oil palm Elaeis melanococca Mart. (an illegitimate name, but often used), a synonym of Elaeis oleifera , an American oil palm
native to tropical and subtropical regions. 1.61 Gb 52,342 2018 [233] Phoenix dactylifera (Date palm) Arecaceae: Woody crop in arid regions 658 Mbp 28,800 2011 [235] N50 contig: 6.4 kb Elaeis guineensis (African oil palm) Arecaceae: Oil-bearing crop ~1800 Mbp 34,800 2013 [236] N50 scaffold: 1.27 Mb Spirodela polyrhiza (Greater duckweed) Araceae ...
Although toco toucans mainly feed on native species, some invasive plants, like Royostenia oleracea and Elaeis guineensis, do represent significant portions of their diet. Toco toucans may help spread such invasive species to forest fragments and rural areas near cities, helping them become established and accelerating the process of invasion.