Common Name(s): Pindo Palm

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Family: Arecaceae

Native To: Brazil

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Ethnobotany: Local people use the fruits of the palm are used for food, produce a jelly or fermented into wine. (Blombery and Rodd 1982). Flesh from the fruit of this species is used in Brazil among Indian groups as an anthelmintic, and the palm is commonly found in Indian gardens (Chopra et al. 1956 in Balick, et al. 1990).

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