Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 35971 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Oenocarpus distichus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Guatemala | TDWG Region | Guatemala | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | Guatemala | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Sutton Hayes | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Immature fruit of a beautiful palm called by the natives Maquenque, and very common in woods about Gatun Station and Line Mill station PBR. It is somethimes more than 30 ft high, with pinnate fronds. It commences to flower the last of pin, es? and sometimes continues flowering for two or three months. The spathes come out from the base of the lower fronds which are soon thrown off, long before the flowers appear through the spathes. The fronds are sheathing at the base, and form a fine gr, een top to the caudex over 2 ft in length, beneath the tuft. In this green part of the stem, by tearing off the outside sheaths, is found a fine tender substance something like cabbage, but the tender part is too small the be sought after much, nut being, more than a foot in length and an inch and a half in diam. The neat clean caudex with its green top below the tuft of fronds gives to this palm a very pleasing appearence being also very tall and slender, often over 30 ft in ht and not more than 4 or 5, inches in diam. | ||||