Attalea cohune Mart. is a plant in the Arecaceae family, order Arecales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Attalea cohune Mart.

Attalea cohune Mart.

Attalea cohune, the cohune palm, is a Central American and Mexican palm used for cohune oil and vegetable ivory.

Family
Genus
Attalea
Order
Arecales
Class
Liliopsida

About Attalea cohune Mart.

Attalea cohune Mart., commonly called the cohune palm, is also known by other common names including rain tree, American oil palm, corozo palm, and manaca palm. It is a species of palm tree that is native to Mexico and parts of Central America. This palm is used to produce cohune oil, and its nut can be used as a type of vegetable ivory.

Photo: (c) Tony Rodd, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Liliopsida Arecales Arecaceae Attalea

More from Arecaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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