Bactris minor

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Read about Bactris minor in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Bactris minor, Jacq. Fig. 448. A tall, slender-stemmed palm, often 40 ft. in height, armed with many dark- colored spines: Lvs. roundish in outline, about 3 ft. long and composed of numerous narrow, sharp-pointed lfts. that are spiny on the veins beneath: spathe axillary, solitary, spreading, very spiny; corolla in both sexes gamopetalous: fr. rotund, purplish black.—A rare but showy palm grown sometimes in tropics.


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