Bactris minor
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Bactris minor, Jacq. Fig. 448. A tall, slender-stemmed palm, often 40 ft. in height, armed with many dark- colored spines: Lvs. roundish in outline, about 3 ft. long and composed of numerous narrow, sharp-pointed lfts. that are spiny on the veins beneath: spathe axillary, solitary, spreading, very spiny; corolla in both sexes gamopetalous: fr. rotund, purplish black.—A rare but showy palm grown sometimes in tropics.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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