black palm

…and chilling encounter with the chunga palms in the Darién Gap? Nothing like a surprising episode to pique your interest in botany, eh? Don’t worry, Encyclopædia Britannica has you covered.

…bright orange fruits of the black palm (Astrocaryum standleyanum), for example, comprise a seed covered by a tough woody layer forming a nut, or stone, which is in turn covered by a layer of pulp. When the fruit ripens and drops to the forest floor, many animals come to eat…