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Attalea maripa

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Attalea maripa, commonly called maripa palm is a palm native to tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It grows up 35 m (115 ft) tall and can have leaves or fronds 10–12 m (33–39 ft) long, bearing up to 636 leaflets. This plant has a yellow edible fruit which is oblong ovoid and cream. An edible oil can be extracted from the pulp of the fruit and from the kernel of the seed.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Attalea maripa
- Slug
- attalea-maripa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Attalea
- Species
- maripa
- Wikidata QID
- Q2708422
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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