Cryosophila nana

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Cryosophila nana

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wild or cultivated


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Mexico. The pulp of the fruit is of a peculiar, delicate, spongy consistence and is pure white and shining on the outside. The juice has a peculiar, penetrating, sweet flavor, is abundant, and is obviously well suited for making palm-wine. The fruit is oblong about one inch in longest diameter. It is grown in Trinidad[1].

  1. Prestoe, H. Trinidad Bot. Gard. Rpt. 39. 1880. (Chamaerops stauracantha)
Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.


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