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Butia yatay
Also called Jelly Palm
A solitary-trunked palm from southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina, the tallest species in the genus Butia. Grow it in full sun with protection from hard frost; the fruit is edible.
Butia yatay, the jelly palm or yatay palm, is a Butia palm native to southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina. It is known as the butiá-jataí in Portuguese in the south of Brazil, as well as simply jataí or butiá. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in Europe and the United States.
It is the tallest of all the species in the genus Butia. The fruit is edible with a sweet flavour.
Seeds (or rather, nuts) are collected in Brazil for the international ornamental plant industry.
It is advised to plant the palms in full sunlight. It is said to take −12 °C, but should be protected at −5 °C in the Netherlands.
In Brazil it only occurs in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, and there only in the municipalities of Giruá and Quaraí. In Argentina it occurs in the northern-center provinces of Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Misiones (in the municipalities of Candelaria and San Ignacio) and Santa Fe. In Uruguay it only occurs to the west in the departments of Paysandú and Río Negro.
Butia archeri · Butia arenicola · Butia campicola · South American jelly palm · Butia catarinensis · Woolly butia palm · Butia lallemantii · Butia matogrossensis · Butia microspadix · South American Jelly Palm · Dwarf Yatay Palm · Butia pubispatha
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Butia yatay 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.
