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peach palm

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noun

  1. a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.


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Plant remains show the use of maize, legumes, and multiple palm species -- moriche palm, corozo palm, cumare palm, totai palm, palmita, and peach palm.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

Unlike maize or manioc, peach palm can thrive with no human attention.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The protection is little needed; peach palm wood is hard enough that in the Beni it was used for saw blades.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Like strawberries, peach palm throws out adventitious shoots.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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