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Acrocomia totai
Also called Totai Palm
Acrocomia totai is a spiny, fast-growing palm from the seasonally dry forests and savannas of South America, valued for its edible fruit and oil-rich seeds. It is grown mainly as a landscape or orchard palm in warm, dry regions rather than as a houseplant.
Acrocomia totai, also known as Paraguay palm or mbocaya (from Guarani: "mboka" meaning "to break" and "ya" meaning "fruit"), is a species of palm in the family Arecaceae and the genus Acrocomia. It is native to parts of South America, where it occurs predominantly in Paraguay and the bordering subdivisions of Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
