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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 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
The Chocó–Darién moist forests (NT0115) is a largely forested, tropical ecoregion of northwestern South America and southern Central America.The ecoregion extends from the eastern Panamanian province of Darién and the indigenous region of Guna Yala to almost the entirety of Colombia's Pacific coast, including the departments of Cauca, Chocó, Nariño and Valle del Cauca.
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 ...
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Elaeis Jacq. Elaeis guineensis Jacq. (African oil palm) Elaeis oleifera Cortés (American oil palm) Bactridinae Drude: Acrocomia Mart. Acrocomia aculeata