The assai-palm (Euterpe oleracea) is a native of tropical South America, only about ten centimetres in diameter and 20 metres high, with a crown of leaves, beneath which a small fruit grows on branched horizontal spadices. The pulp of the fruit mixed with water is used as a beverage. Research Assai-Palm
The Cabbage Palm or Cabbage Tree (Euterpe oleracea) is a tree native to the West Indies where it often attains a height of thirty metres. It is a handsome tree with a trunk free from the remains of the leaf-sheaths of dead leaves. The terminal bud and the interior of the stem are edible, pickled or boiled. Research Cabbage Palm
Euterpe is a genus of tall, slender, tropical, spineless palms, chiefly natives of Brazil and Central America, rising to a height of some 30 metres. The leaves are terminal, and as the leaf-sheaths completely fall with the rest of the leaf, the stems are clean and free from signs of previously dead leaves. They produce small white flowers, followed by purple, pea-like fruit. Research Euterpe
Euterpe was the muse of music. She was looked upon as the inventor of the flute, and was represented as a virgin crowned with flowers and holding a flute in her hands. Sometimes the invention of tragedy was also ascribed to her. Research Euterpe
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