Product Description
Butia capitata, commonly called yatay palm, pindo palm or jelly palm. It is native from southern Brazil to Paraguay.
This palm is noted for its comparatively short but stout solitary trunk which is usually covered with persistent leaf bases from the stalks of fallen leaves, arching, thick-textured, marginally-spined pinnate leaves that often form a dense but loose crown, each leaf having 25-60 pairs of narrow pointed leaflets which are usually grayish green, but sometimes deep green or silvery blue, axillary flower clusters bearing tiny, yellowish, fruity-scented, unisexual flowers of both sexes (male with 6 stamens and female with 3 stigmas and a solitary pistil), and orange, rounded, edible fruits with a fibrous but juicy flesh surrounding a hard stone.
