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Oenocarpus bataua, the patawa or ungurahua, is a tall solitary palm of Amazonian and northern South American rainforests, grown for its oil-rich edible fruit. Growing it outside the wet tropics is difficult, so it is best treated as a tropical landscape or specimen palm.
Oenocarpus bataua, the patawa, sehe, hungurahua (Ecuador) or mingucha, is a palm tree native to the Amazon rainforest. The tree produces edible fruits rich in high-quality oil.
It is native to the tropical rainforests of South America and is abundant in the wet zones at elevations less than 1,000 m (3,300 ft). Its distribution stretches from Panama and Trinidad to the Amazon basin (Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru). Two varieties are recognized:
Patawa fruits are used for cosmetic, food, and pharmaceutical purposes.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oenocarpus bataua 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.
