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Attalea butyracea
Also called Kuakish, American Oil Palm
Attalea butyracea is a tall, feather-leafed palm native from southern Mexico to Bolivia and Trinidad and Tobago, grown mainly as a landscape or specimen tree in warm, humid climates. It needs a frost-free, wet tropical setting and room to grow, as it is far too large for most home gardens or indoors.
Attalea butyracea is a species of palm tree native from Mexico to northern South America.
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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.
