Palms   Syagrus xCostae

Common Names: coco-babo (local name) Conservation Status: Unknown Distribution & Habitat: Syagrus x costae (coco-babo) is a species endemic to the state of Pernambuco, thriving in the tablelands 250km west of Recife, around the city of Garanhuns (600m elevation). Description: The species is a nice looking natural fertile hybrid between S. cearensis and S. coronata , has large edible fruits 3cm diameter, and the seeds are rather difficult to germinate. Culture: Probably cold hardy and drought tolerant. In the natural habitat they reach 8 to 10°C in the winter and the average precipitation there is less than 800mm, and not so regularly distributed, some years it hardly rains there at all. It is common in semi-arid parts of my state, but seldom seen near our humid coast (Atlantic forest) or in Recife, and never employed in landscape here.

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Gileno Machado (Text - from a posting on the IPS Forums, July, 2005)

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