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Astrocaryum murumuru is a spiny palm of the Amazon basin, valued for its edible fruit and the oil from its seed kernels. It grows best in wet, humid tropical conditions, often in periodically flooded lowland forest.
Astrocaryum murumuru (Portuguese common name: murumuru) is a palm native to Amazon rainforest vegetation in Brazil, which bears edible fruits. Murumuru butter, extracted from the seeds of the plant, may be used as a moisturizer. One remarkable feature of this palm is that it is covered with spines up to 30 cm (12 in) long.
The murumuru palm tree grows in Brazil and around the Amazon and is one of the dominant trees in this region. It has a thick trunk and a shuttlecock-shaped, bushy crown. The nutritious, edible fruits are an important local food source and materials made from the tree, fruit, and seed kernels are commercially significant to the region. Hammocks are made from the tree's fibres. Murumuru butter is moisturizing (emollient). It is also film-forming and glossy. These qualities make it very protective. It contains vitamins and has a high content of oleic acid.
It is abundant in the Brazilian Amazon, extending to the borders of Bolivia and Peru; it prefers to grow in periodically flooded areas, especially on islands and in lowlands along the rivers throughout the Amazon River estuary and its tributaries, in dense or semi-open forests.
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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.
