Palms   Euterpe

These are very elegant palms; their stems are lofty, slender, smooth and faintly ringed. The leaves are terminal, pinnate, regular, and form a graceful feathery plume. The bases of the petioles are sheathing for a long distance down the stem, forming a thick column three or four feet long, of a green or reddish colour. The spadices, three or four in number, spring from beneath the leaves, and the spathes are very deciduous, falling to the ground as soon as they open. The fruit is small, globose, at first green, then violet or black, and consists of a thin edible pulp covering the hard seed.

Alfred Russell Wallace - Palm Trees of the Amazon, 1853

broadwayi	catinga
edulis	edulis in Argentina
espiritosantensis	longibracteata
luminosa	oleracea
precatoria

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