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Mauritia flexuosa, Linn. f. Moriche Palm. Ita Palm. Sts. without stolons, in nature often 90 ft. tall: lvs. 20- 30, erect-spreading, 9-16 ft. long; blade 2½-4 ft. long, yellowish beneath; lobes 2/3 -l½ in. wide; petiole stout, rigid, semi-cylindrical, equaling the blade: fr. nearly 2 in. long, depressed-globose; seed 1 1/3 in. long. Trop. Brazil.—Offered in 1889 by Reasoner Bros. In the Amazon delta this palm grows to 150 ft. or more in height, with a trunk often 30 in. diam. at base. "The fr. is spherical, the size of a small apple, and covered with rather small, smooth, brown, reticulated scales, beneath which is a thin coating of pulp. A spadix loaded with fr. is of immense weight, often more than two men could carry between them."—Wallace, "Palms of the Amazon." It forms extensive forests, and provides material for subsistence and arts of the Indians.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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