Palm - Queen

Scientific Name(s): Syagrus romanzoffiana
What: fruit
How: raw, jelly
Where: landscaping, Gulf Coast region
When:


Queen palm.
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Queen palm base.
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Queen palm trunk.
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Queen palm crown. Needle-type leaves.
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The orange fruit appear in late summer/early fall.
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Close-up of the fruit. You can see the fibers nature in the older, brown/gray fruit.
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Standing majestically, Queen palms live up to their names and so are often used as a landscaping palms. Their trunk is rather smooth and gray. Its leaves can be up to fifteen feet in length. The individual fronds are somewhat stiff. If you want to add one to your yard they prefer acidic, moist soil and are somewhat salt-tolerant if you are near the coast.

In the late summer/fall appear large clusters up to six feet long of orange, one inch fruit. The flesh of this fruit is sweet but fiberous. Just chew/suck the sweetness from the fruit and then spit out the fibers. Like the Pindo palm, these sweet fruit can also be used to make jelly or wine. A good quality palm nut oil can be extracted from the seeds though some sort of oil press is recommended for this.

The fruit is often 20' or more feet off the ground which makes harvesting tricky. Laying a tarp down beneath the tree and then either shake the tree (difficult) or toss a Nerf ball the clusters to dislodge the fruit. A Nerf ball is hard enough to dislodge the fruit but soft enough to not damage them.


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