Oreodoxa Oleracea
The West Indian cabbage palm, which sometimes attains the height of 170 feet, with a straight cylindrical trunk. The semicylindrical portions of the leaf-stalk are formed into cradles for children, or...
The West Indian cabbage palm, which sometimes
attains the height of 170 feet, with a straight cylindrical trunk.
The semicylindrical portions of the leaf-stalk are formed into
cradles for children, or made into splints for fractures. Their
inside skin, peeled off while green, and dried, looks like vellum,
and can be written upon. The heart of young leaves, or cabbage, is
boiled as a vegetable or pickled, and the pith affords sago. Oil
is obtained from the fruit.
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