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30.10.2020

I have just got a packet that contains six african oil palm seeds from Banana tree and I hope they will grow. I am hoping to figure out what to do with them they grow, I hope to keep all six of them or give some of them to the Missouri botanical gardens in St.Louis, Mo and to the Wsahington park botanical gardens In Springfield ,IL. Wyatt Reinhart Palm oil in Africa. The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) originated in West Africa and grows extensively in this region, but largely as low-yield multi-crop stands in and around villages, where it has been traditionally grown as a subsistence crop in small-scale farming systems for thousands of years. The African oil palm is native to tropical Africa, from Sierra Leone in the west through the Democratic Republic of Congo in the east. It was domesticated in its native range, probably in Nigeria, and moved throughout tropical Africa by humans who practiced shifting agriculture at least 5000 years ago. The Oil Palm Tree The oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis jacq.) originates from West Africa where it grows in the wild and later was developed into an agricultural crop. It was introduced to Malaysia, then Malaya, by the British in early 1870’s as an ornamental plant. Palm oil is extracted from the reddish pulp of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palms. Because of a high beta-carotene content in Palm oil, it looks reddish in colour. Oil Palms are native to west and southwest Africa and eventually spread across the globe. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa. The use of palm oil in food products has attracted the concern of environmental activist groups; the high oil yield of the trees has encouraged wider cultivation, leading to the clearing of forests in parts of Indonesia to make space for oil-palm monocult

The total world plantation area under oil palm covers about 6 million ha, of which nearly half is in Malaysia, and almost 80 percent in Asia (Table 1). Between 1996  

African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) The African Oil Palm is the principle source of palm oil. Palm oil is extracted from the pulp of the fruit and the seed kernel. The tree grows to 60 feet tall. In the wild it is found along streams, swamps and in the savannas. The African Oil Palm tree is native to west and Southwest Africa. I have just got a packet that contains six african oil palm seeds from Banana tree and I hope they will grow. I am hoping to figure out what to do with them they grow, I hope to keep all six of them or give some of them to the Missouri botanical gardens in St.Louis, Mo and to the Wsahington park botanical gardens In Springfield ,IL. Wyatt Reinhart Palm oil in Africa. The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) originated in West Africa and grows extensively in this region, but largely as low-yield multi-crop stands in and around villages, where it has been traditionally grown as a subsistence crop in small-scale farming systems for thousands of years. The African oil palm is native to tropical Africa, from Sierra Leone in the west through the Democratic Republic of Congo in the east. It was domesticated in its native range, probably in Nigeria, and moved throughout tropical Africa by humans who practiced shifting agriculture at least 5000 years ago.

Palm tree was originated from West Africa (from Angola to Senega). As far as 5000 years, human stated to use palm oils. In late 1800s, archaeologists discovered palm oil in a tomb. It is considered that palm oil was brought by Arab traders to Egypt. In Central and West African countries, it was recognized as cooking oil.

Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly just called oil palm (Khmer: ដូងប្រេង), but also sometimes African oil palm or Oil palm trees can produce much more oil per unit land area than other oil plants (about nine time more than  Elaeis (from Greek, meaning 'oil') is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms. They are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil. The African oil palm Elaeis guineensis (the species name guineensis  The total world plantation area under oil palm covers about 6 million ha, of which nearly half is in Malaysia, and almost 80 percent in Asia (Table 1). Between 1996   African oil palm has been introduced to Kenya and eastern Uganda but the Male and female flowers in separate clusters, but on same tree (monoecious).

21 Sep 2019 Between 2000-2015, companies signed oil palm plantation concession agreements with African governments covering over 4.7 million 

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It is a vegetable oil extracted mainly from the pulp of the palm trees fruit. The extraction is done with two varieties of the palm plant, the African palm tree, and the American palm tree. Palm oil has plenty of health benefits due to its high beta-carotene content. 11 Amazing Health Benefits of Palm Oil. 1. Healthier Option

African oil palm seeds (Elaeis guineensis) growing in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. The endemic ravinala tree (traveller's tree) stands out in a primeval forest of Andasibe/Mantadia National Park. This tree is the national symbol of M Palm Liquor Distillery near Cape Coast, Ghana