Fruit Description

Aguaje is an edible fatty palm fruit with a slight tartness. When ripe the scales easily peel off. The flesh is 2-3 mm thick fatty, similar in taste to Dabai. The tree can grow up to 35 meters and likes swampy wet areas. The productive palm bears fruit every 2-3 months giving 500-2000 fruits per cluster. The palm is dioecious, it needs a male and a female tree to produce.
When the fruits start to fall, the whole cluster can be harvested and the hard fruits can be soaked in water for 1-2 days or in warm water for an hour. After the soaking the flesh becomes soft and the scales peel off easily.
Good eaten by itself or added to salad dressings.

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Seeds Last Available - November-2020