Diplothemium maritimum.
Botanical name:
Diplothemium maritimum Mart. Palmae. Coast Palm.
A palm of Brazil. The fruit, an ovate or obovate drupe, is yellow and has a fibrous, acid-sweet flesh, which is eaten by the Indians.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.
