Editing Elaeis oleifera

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[[File:Elaeis_oleifera.jpg|frame|Figure 1. ''E. oleifera'']]
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===Synonymy:===
''Corozo oleifera''

===Common Names:===
American Oil palm<br/>

===Distribution & Habitat:===
Costa Rica to the lower Amazon River in Brazil.

===Description:===
A large, solitary, pinnate-leaved palm which has
dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit.
This fruit yields a high quality palm oil.

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===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''.

===Culture:===
Sunny, moist, but well drained position. Tropical in its requirements.
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[[File:Elaeis_oleifera02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''E. oleifera'' in Amazonas State, Brazil.]]
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===Contributed by: ===
Kyle Wicomb (Figure 1)<br/>
Pablo Boni Herrera (Figure 2)<br/>


===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Elaeis%20oleifera Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/9471d973-eaf1-4cbf-8084-dbf15f8a8b4f PalmWeb],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Elaeis+oleifera JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Elaeis+oleifera Trebrown]
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[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Elaeis+oleifera%22&amp;num=10&amp;sa=Google+Search Google],
[https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Elaeis+oleifera%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Elaeis+oleifera Flickr],
[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Elaeis+oleifera%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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