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Figure 1. *B. major* var *socialis* also in Bolivia.

Common Names:[edit]

Lata Palm

Habitat:[edit]

Centra/South American rainforest.

Description:[edit]

Small clustering palm to about 4m, with thin brown trunks, with spines at the nodes. Leaf petioles also have spines.

General:[edit]

An alcoholic drink is made from the fruit.

Culture:[edit]

Warm, sheltered, and moist.

Figure 2. *B. major* var *socialis* in habitat, Bolivia.

Figure 3. *B. major* in habitat, Trinidad

Figure 4. *B. major* inflorescence, and infructescence.

Contributed by:[edit]

Gaston Torres Vera (Figure 1&2) (Images copyright Argentina Palms)
Robert Wilson (Figure 3,4&5)

External Links:[edit]

Kew, PalmWeb, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk

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 ===Contributed by: ===
-Gaston Torres Vera,<br/>
+Gaston Torres Vera (Figure 1&2) (Images copyright Argentina Palms)<br/>
-Cordoba, Argentina (Figure 1&2) (Images copyright Argentina Palms)<br/>
-[[community.webshots.comuserbismarckia"
 Robert Wilson (Figure 3,4&5)
 ===External Links:===
-<p>[https://www.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Bactris+major&amp;page=quickSearch Kew],
+[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Bactris%20major Kew],
 [https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/25b4bc48-7adb-4103-9aa4-da57f1725fd3 PalmWeb],
 [https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Bactris+major JSTOR],
 [https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Bactris+major Trebrown]
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 [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bactris+major%22&amp;num=10&amp;sa=Google+Search Google],
 [https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Bactris+major%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
 [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Bactris+major Flickr],
 [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bactris+major%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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 [[Category:Bactris|major]]
 [[Category:Palm|Bactris_major]]