- Attalea cohune
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Cohune Palm Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Subfamily: Arecoideae Tribe: Cocoseae Subtribe: Attaleinae[1] Genus: Attalea Species: A. cohune Binomial name Attalea cohune
Mart.Attalea cohune, commonly known as the cohune palm (also rain tree, American oil palm, corozo palm or manaca palm),[2] is a species of palm tree native to Mexico and Central America.[3]
The cohune palm is used in the production of cohune oil.
References
- ^ Dransfield, John; Natalie W. Uhl, Conny B. Asmussen, William J. Baker, Madeline M. Harley, Carl E. Lewis (2005). "A New Phylogenetic Classification of the Palm Family, Arecaceae". Kew Bulletin 60 (4): 559–69. JSTOR 25070242.
- ^ Cohune palm at Floridata
- ^ "Attalea cohune". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6060. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
Categories:- Attalea
- Plants described in 1844
- Trees of Belize
- Trees of Campeche
- Trees of Chiapas
- Trees of Colima
- Trees of El Salvador
- Trees of Guatemala
- Trees of Honduras
- Trees of Jalisco
- Trees of Michoacán
- Trees of Oaxaca
- Trees of Quintana Roo
- Trees of Tabasco
- Palm stubs
- Tree stubs
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