Abelmoschus esculentus (L - the University of Maine at Fort Kent

Kermath, Bennett and Pulsipher - Food Plants in the Americs
FAMILY: Arecaceae or Palmae (palm)
ENGLISH: American oil palm, wine palm, yagua palm
PORTUGUESE: cocão, jaci
SPANISH: canambo, coquito, coroba, corozo, coyol real, huilote (rachis
only), manaca (leaves only), palla, palma de agua, palma de vino,
palma real, shapaja, shebón, yagua, zonza
USES/NOTES: Seeds are an edible oil source and sap is made into wine
in Colombia.
NATURAL RANGE: Southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela,
Trinidad and Tobago, and Amazonian Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil
REFERENCES: Bernal 1992, Duke and Vásquez 1994, Henderson 1995,
Henderson et al. 1995, Martin et al. 1987, Pinedo-Vásquez et al.
1992, Uphof 1968, UFA/NYBG n.d., Uhl and Dransfield 1987
Attalea cohune Mart. [syn. Orbignya cohune (Mart.) R. Dahlgren ex
Standley, Orbignya guacuyule (Liebm. ex Mart.) E. Hernández]
FAMILY: Arecaceae or Palmae (palm)
ENGLISH: cohune, cohune nut, cohune palm
SPANISH: cohume, cohune, coquito de aceite, coquito de colima, coroz,
corozo, coyol, manaca, palma de corozo, tutz, yagua
USES/NOTES: Seeds are the source of cohune oil, used in foods,
cooking, soaps, and oil lamps. Young buds and heart are eaten as a
vegetable, fruit’s flesh is candied, and sap is made into wine.
Leaves are used for thatch, stems are used for construction, and
nuts are fed to livestock. Previously described as Orbignya cohune
on the Atlantic side and O. guacuyule on the Pacific side.
NATURAL RANGE: Atlantic coastal plain from northern Nicaragua, through
coastal Honduras, Belize, and southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, west
through Guatemala’s Petén, into Chiapas, and along the Pacific
coastal plain from El Salvador through Mexico’s central coast.
REFERENCES: Henderson et al. 1995, Martin et al. 1987, McCurrach 1960,
McSweeney 1995, OAS 1973, Rehm and Espig 1991, von Reis Altschul
1973
Attalea colenda (Cook) Balslev & Henderson
FAMILY: Arecaceae or Palmae (palm)
SPANISH: palma real
USES/NOTES: Seed contains an edible oil similar in quantaty and
quality to that of the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).
NATURAL RANGE: Ecuador’s western lowlands
REFERENCES: Balslev and Blicher-Mathiesen 1991, Blicher-Mathiesen and
Balslev 1990, Henderson et al. 1995
Attalea crassispatha (Mart.) Burret [syn. Bornoa crassispatha Cook,
Cocos crassispath Mart., Maximiliana crassispatha Mart.]
FAMILY: Arecaceae or Palmae (palm)
FRENCH: carossier
USES/NOTES: Seeds are edible. Very rare, only some 25 individuals
remain in the wild.
NATURAL RANGE: Southwestern Haiti
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