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Butia capitata
Also called Jelly Palm, Pindo Palm, Brazilian Butia, Beccari
In Singapore: Butià, Wine Palm, Jelly Palm, Pindo Palm (Grown in Singapore)
Butia capitata is a feather palm native to Brazil, grown for its edible fruit and as an ornamental. It is a species, not just a genus, and is hardy and drought tolerant once established.
Butia capitata, is known as Cocus Capitata and also known as jelly palm, is a Butia palm native to the states of Minas Gerais and Goiás in Brazil.
The plant is native to Brazil, in the states of Minas Gerais and Goiás. It is known locally as coquinho-azedo or butiá in (northern) Minas Gerais.
The fruits are locally harvested from the wild between November and February to make juices, liquor, marmalades and ice-cream. The fruit has orange, sometimes red, skin. The pulp is bright orange, highly aromatic, somewhat oily, and quite fibrous. The pulp can be frozen for industrial production. In the north of Minas Gerais state, B. capitata juice has been added to some public school lunches.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Butia capitata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
