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Flowers/Fruits: The Carpentaria Palm produces beautiful green to white flowers all year round. Flowers are held by long inflorescence growing from under the crown shaft up to 4 feet long. Flowers are bisexual, and male and female flowers are on the same inflorescence.
Plant database entry for Carpentaria Palm (Carpentaria acuminata) with 2 images and 30 data details.
- Perennial
- Full Sun
- Tree
- Mesic
Sepals 3, petals 3 and the flowers in groups of 3, with 1 female between 2 male flowers. Male flowers with 30-40 stamens. Fruit globular and up to 20 mm in diameter, scarlet when ripe with up to 3 seeds within.
- What Fruit Grows on Palm Trees?
- Coconut Palm Fruit
- Date Palm Fruit
- Açaí Palm Fruit
- Pindo Palm Fruit – Jelly Palm Fruit
- Saw Palmetto Palm Fruit
- Peach Palm Fruit
- Oil Palm Fruit
- Betel Nut Palm Fruit
- Snake Palm Fruit
The most common fruits that grow on palm trees are coconut and dates. Other types of fruits that grow on palm trees are acai berries, oil palm fruits, saw palmetto, jelly palm fruits, betel nuts, and round fruits like peach palms. Some palm tree fruits look like miniature coconuts called coquitos. Palms are a group of perennial flowering woody plan...
The fruit of the coconut palm is a large green or yellow round fruit when immature, that can measure up to 8” (20 cm) in diameter and 18” (45 cm) long. The recognizable mature brown coconut seed is covered in a hairy fiber and is located inside a thick husk. A coconut weighs around 3 lbs. (1.4 kg). Although referred to as a nut, the fruit from a co...
The fruit of the date palm tree is a relatively large, soft, oval drupe ranging in color from bright red to yellow or dark brown fruit. Brown dates with their fibrous flesh are the most recognizable type of date. The oval-cylindrical fruits measure 1” to 3” (2.5 – 7 cm) long. Date palm fruit is easy to identify on a tall palm tree. The massive dist...
The fruit from the acai palm tree is a berry-like drupe that looks like a grape. The black, round acai berries grow in huge clusters with between 500 and 900 fruits on drooping branches. Black acai berries have pulpy flesh covering a single seed. The berries from acai palms measure 1” (2.5 cm) in diameter. You can identify ripe acai palm fruit when...
Fruit from the pindo palm tree is a small yellowish or orange palm berryabout the size of a cherry. Also called the jelly palm fruit, the orange-yellow fruit measures approximately 1” (2.5 cm) in diameter. Like most fruit growing on palm trees, jelly palm fruit grows in enormous clusters. The jelly palm tree gets its name from the high pectin level...
The fruit on saw palmetto palms is an identifiable oval dark or black berry that looks like an olive. Each black rounded fruit measures between 0.5” and 1” (1.3 – 2.5 cm) long and grows in dense clusters. The saw palmetto palm’s dark berries have a sweet aroma but have a strong blue cheese flavor. Native to Florida, the saw palmetto fruit from this...
The fruit from the peach palm is a large orange, red, or yellow edible drupe with a triangular shape. Peach palm fruit is easy to identify growing on a palm tree. Each fruit measures 2.4” (6 cm) long and 2” (5 cm) wide, and the fleshy fruits grow in drooping clusters. Peach palm fruits can number up to 300 fruits on each bunch. Depending on the tre...
The fruit that grows on an oil palm tree is a large orange to dark red rounded fruit. Like most palm trees, the round fruits grow in massive clusters. Each red palm fruit has an oily flesh and oil-rich seed or kernel. Each bunch of oil palm fruits can weigh between 11 and 66 lbs. (5 – 30 kg). The most common use of oil palm fruit is in vegetable oi...
The fruit from the betel nut palm tree is the areca nut. The mature palm nuts are brown and egg-shaped and measure up to 2” (5 cm) long. Although called a nut, this brown palm fruit is a hard-shelled drupe. When ripe, the outer layer develops a hard, fibrous shell like a nut. The areca palm nut is commonly called the betel nut. This is because, in ...
The fruit growing on the snake palm is an egg-shaped brown, about the size of a fig, with sweet and tangy white edible pulp inside. Snake palm fruit consists of three lobes that are like a garlic bulb. Each of the lobes contains a large inedible seed. Fruit from a snake palm gets its name from the brown, scaly skin covering the large fruit. Biting ...
May 22, 2012 · Description: Carpentaria acuminata is a monoecious plant, with single, slender, stem and very elegant arcing fronds. As a bonus, it has showy brilliant red fruit that hangs in large clusters from the trunk.
May 22, 2024 · You might be surprised, but palm trees actually do have flowers! They just don’t look like the big, colorful blooms you might be thinking of. Instead, they grow clusters of smaller flowers on long stalks. These can be feathery or branched, and sometimes they even have a strong smell.
Flowers: Inflorescences white, emerging from under the crown shaft; flowers held in groups of threes (2 males, 1 female). Fruit: Fruits ovoid, about 1.5 to 2 cm long, ripening from red to black, occurring in large berry-like bunches. Cultivation: Grows well in full sun thus best to place it under a bright and sunny location.
