Palm Tree
Acai Palm Tree: a Valuable Component of the Brazilian Way of Life
The acai palm tree is one of eight palm species classified under the genus Euterpe. Pronounced “ah-sigh-ee”, acai grows abundantly in the floodplains and swamps of Central and South America where the tropical climate is friendly to this blackish purple drupe.
Acai palm trees are grown for their fruits and hearts. While it has been a staple food for many years in Brazil, the acai berry has become extremely popular in the US in recent years that global demand has gone through the roof.
Similar to grapes, the acai palm tree produces berries in bunches, going from a green color to a dark rich purple as they ripen. Acai fruits are round, with a single large seed enclosed in a fibrous pulp covered with an oily skin coating. One acai palm tree can produce four to eight bunches a year, with each bunch weighing up to 6 kilograms.
For hundreds of years, Brazilians have been using oil from the acai fruit to treat diarrhea. They also add shredded acai rind to topical wash solutions for skin ulcers. In Peru, acai seeds are ground, toasted and applied to fevers. In Colombia, the acai, also called naidi, is a very popular gastronomic delight.
Along the banks of the Amazon River, natives consume acai like water. They extract the juice by first soaking the fruit in water. Once the skin is softened, the acai is squeezed and strained to produce a dark purple liquid. Acai extracts are consumed as fresh fruit juice or added to Ice Cream, liquor and sweet snacks. Amazonians drink up to 2 liters of acai juice per day.
Since the time of tribal wars among Amazon warriors to modern Rio de Janeiro, juice from the acai berry has been and remains an important part of South American diet.
The secret behind those beautiful Brazilian bodies is bunched up there in the acai palm tree.
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Can a drooping palm tree be saved?
I live near Barcelona, and in my yard, I have what seems to be a Canary Island date palm. It is about 7 meters tall, and had been healthy until my neighbor recently, as winter was approaching, very aggressively-- and without ever having complained to me about the tree-- cut all of the fronds that entered into his yard. The tree has responded badly. It is drooping more and more, and the new fronds are extremely limp and somewhat brownish, though not completely dried up.
Is there anything I can do to revive or save this tree? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
It seems like your palm tree is missing one or more of the nutrients that the soil needs. General symptoms of nutrient deficiency include: yellowish appearance in the crowns with the older leaves
becoming quite yellow or even bleached with necrotic patches on the leaflets (nitrogen), older
leaves developing yellow areas between the veins with midrib and veins remaining green
(magnesium), pale green new growth followed by yellowing of the areas between the veins
(iron), necrotic spots and blotches on older leaves (potassium). I would recommend the products that I personally used for my palm trees and also this company has one product for the winter time as you mention is approaching in your area.
good luck!
www.greenercreation.com
http://greenercreation.com/_product_76047/Ultimate_Winterizing_Liter_P
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