Butia eriospatha

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Cocos eriospatha, Mart. St. 9-15 ft. high, 10-14 in. thick, capitately thickened with the persistent bases of the petioles: Lvs. ample, glaucous, finely pectinate; margins of the rachis with excurrent filaments; segms. about 1 in. apart, the lower elongated, linear, 20-24 in. long, very long-acuminate, the upper narrowly linear, short, attenuate, 1 ft. long, 2 lines wide, all rigid, faintly nervose-striate: spadix thick, branched but very compact. S. Brazil.—"The hardiest of the genus and one of the hardiest palms in S. Calif. Fronds bluish: fr. pulp tastes like apricots."—F. Franceschi, Santa Barbara. Some of the C. australis of the trade may belong here. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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