Palm trees of the Amazon and their usesWallace, Alfred Russel
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Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Palms -- Amazon River Valley
_Botanical Name._ _Native Name._ _Uses._
Leopoldinia
pulchra Jará Stem used for fencing, rafters,
&c.
major Jará assú Fruit for making salt.
piassaba Piassába Fibre for cordage, brooms, &c.;
leaves for thatching; fruit
eatable.
Euterpe
oleracea Assaí Fruit for making a drink; stem for
rafters, &c.
catinga Assaí de Catinga Fruit for making a drink.
Œnocarpus
baccaba Baccába Fruit makes a drink and oil;
leaves for thatching.
batawá Patawá Fruit makes a drink; spinous
processes used for making
arrows.
disticha Baccába Leaves for thatching.
minor Baccába miri Fruit makes a drink.
Iriartea
exorhiza Pashiúba Stem split for floors and
ceilings, &c.; air-roots for
graters.
ventricosa Pashiúba Stem split for lances, harpoons,
barriguda floors, &c.; swollen part of
stem for canoes.
setigera Pashiúba miri Stem hollowed for making blowtubes
or Gravatánas.
Raphia
tædigera Jupatí Leaf-stalks split for making
boxes, partitioning houses,
doors, &c.
Mauritia
flexuosa Mirití Fruit makes a drink; fibres of
twisted into string for
hammocks, &c.; leaf-stalks as
the last.
aculeata Caranaí Fruit makes a drink.
gracilis Caranaí Fruit makes a drink.
pumila Caranaí Not known.
caraná Caraná Leaves good for thatch;
leaf-stalks used as those of
_Raphia tædigera_.
Lepidocaryum
tenue Caranaí do Mato None.
Geonoma
multiflora Ubimrána These species and others allied
all have the leaves more or less
used for thatching.
paniculigera Ubim de Cotiwiya
rectifolia Ubimrána
Manicaria
saccifera Bussú Leaves the best for thatching;
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