Editing Elaeis oleifera (section)

===General:===
Generally less robust or as impressive as ''E. guineensis'', shorter, with a thinner trunk and smaller more reedy canopy, rare and not often grown ornamentally but still very attractive with its shiny deep green leaflets. Used locally for palm oil, but not grown on anywhere
near the same scale as its close relative ''E. guineensis''. However, ''Elaeis oleifera'' is increasingly used in Latin America as a parent for the hybrid between the two species.  ''Elaeis oleifera'' amongst other things imparts a shorter staying fruit bearing trunk for the ease of harvest. Hybridisation is also done in Southeast Asia to increase efforts to provide disease resistance for bud rot and to increase the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids in the oil found in E. oleifera onto the more prolific bearer ''E. guineensis''.