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Oenocarpus bacaba
About
Oenocarpus bacaba is an economically important monoecious fruiting palm native to South America and the Amazon rainforest, which has edible fruits. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. It can reach up to 20–25 metres tall and 15–25 cm in diameter. It grows in well-drained sandy soils of the Amazon basin.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Oenocarpus bacaba
- Slug
- oenocarpus-bacaba
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Oenocarpus
- Species
- bacaba
- Wikidata QID
- Q2707932
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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