Palms
 
Butia archeri
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Conservation Status:
Endangered
Distribution & Habitat:
A rare palm from Southern Brazil, growing in a small area of
Goias and Minas Gerais, in open grasslands.
Description:
A small Butia sometimes with a trunk reaching a maximum of 1m in height.
Leaves are glaucous, and extremely recurved and arching.
Culture:
This palm is new to cultivation, so its hardiness is unknown,
but is likely to show considerable cold resistance
like the others of its genus.

Figure 1. B. archeri
in habitat, southern Brazil.

Figure 2. B. archeri

Figure 3. B. archeri

Figure 4. A classic plant of B. archeri
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| Contributed by:
| Ed Brown (Figure 1,2&3)
| | Nigel Kembrey,
Hardy Palms (Text)
| | Gileno Machado (Figure 4)
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