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Peach Palm
£2
Sponsor one or more Peach Palm trees and help fight deforestion in the Amazon. Each tree plays a vital role in the biodiversity of the rainforest. When you protect a tree you receive a special certificate via email or through the post. View it's location in your Cool Earth account. Help fight climate change and keep this tree standing.
- Local name
- Pijuayo
- Latin name
- Bactris gasipaes Kunth
- Height
- Up to 20m
- Girth
- 25cm
- CO2 stored (tonnes)
- 4
- Leaves
- Its canopy has 10-30 pinnate leaves, usually spineless.
- Fruit
- Edible red/orange fruit.
- Location
- Mostly found in wet, lowland forests.
The Peach Palm is a multi-stemmed tree that’s extremely valuable to indigenous people and much loved by macaws and parrots because of its edible fruit and palm hearts. A tree produces up to a dozen fruit bunches annually which are used to make drinks and jellies. The “Heart of Palm” consists of buds and young leaves.
