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Moriche palm
Mauritia flexuosa
About
Mauritia flexuosa, known as the moriche palm, ité palm, ita, buriti, muriti, miriti (Brazil), canangucho (Colombia), morete or acho (Ecuador), palma real (Bolivia), or aguaje (Peru), is a palm tree. It grows in and near swamps and other wet areas in tropical South America.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Mauritia flexuosa
- Slug
- mauritia-flexuosa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Mauritia
- Species
- flexuosa
- Wikidata QID
- Q1016320
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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