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Butia odorata, also known as the South American jelly palm, [3] jelly palm, [3] [4] or pindo palm, [3] is a Butia palm native to southernmost Brazil and Uruguay. [2] This slow-growing palm grows up to 10m, although it is often less tall. It is identifiable by its feather palm pinnate leaves that arch inwards towards a thick stout trunk.
One of the major palm cultivars in Saudi Arabia. Its fruit is called Khlaṣ (خلاص). Notably produced in Hofuf and Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia (ash-Sharqīyah). Kharbalian Pakistan: Khaṣab Kuwait; Oman: Arabic: الخصاب: Kisba, Kasbat - Asfoor Djibouti; Bahrain: Arabic: كسبة: Khaṣouee Iran: Arabic: خاصوئی ...
In Ancient Rome, the palm fronds used in triumphal processions to symbolize victory were most likely those of P. dactylifera. [47] The date palm was a popular garden plant in Roman peristyle gardens, though it would not bear fruit in the more temperate climate of Italy. [48]
The conventional way this fruit is eaten is when the outer casing is still unripe while the seeds are eaten as the fruit. But if the entire fruit is left to ripen, the fibrous outer layer of the palm fruits can also be eaten raw, boiled, or roasted. When this happens, the fruit takes a purple-blackish hue, and tastes similar to coconut flesh ...
Arecaceae are common in Saudi Arabia Palmyra palm fruit at Guntur, India. Evidence for cultivation of the date palm by Mesopotamians and other Middle Eastern peoples exists from more than 5,000 years ago, [25] in the form of date wood, pits for storing dates, and other remains of the date palm in Mesopotamian sites.
This palm does not perform well in hot, humid tropical climates. Butia palm or jelly palm, pindo palm (Butia odorata) [10] [11] – Along with Jubaea, possibly the hardiest known pinnate-leaved palm. B. odorata is a palm native to Brazil and Uruguay. [10] This palm grows up to 6 m (20 ft), exceptionally 8 m (26 ft), in a slow but steady manner.
Açaí palm with fruit. The fruit, commonly known as açaí or açaí berry, [10] is a small, round, black-purple drupe about 25 mm (1 in) in circumference, similar in appearance to a grape, but smaller and with less pulp and produced in branched panicles of 500 to 900 fruits.
Fruits Common name Scientific name Native distribution African palmyra palm, Rônier (and other names) Borassus aethiopum: tropical Africa and Madagascar Ake Assi's palmyra palm, Rônier (and other names) Borassus akeassii: West and Central Africa Asian palmyra palm/lontar palm/doub palm: Borassus flabellifer: southern Asia from India to Indonesia