Bactris ferruginea

[caixeta]

The palm tree is not so beatiful , but its fruits are delicious ,very sweet and resemble jabuticabas.  THE BEST PALM FRUIT.

[User00]

thanks for uploading 

[Josh-O]

I always dig pictures of fruiting palms 

[raimeiken]

any more info on the care for this palm? any cold tolerance? 

[Howeadypsis]

Very nice!

[epiphyte]

anyone growing this outside in southern california?  

[idontknowhatnametuse]

On 3/24/2024 at 8:11 PM, epiphyte said:

anyone growing this outside in southern california?  

Are you planning to zone-push Bactris sp. as well? I'm gonna be zone pushing a Bactris major in zone 10a and see how it does.

[epiphyte]

13 hours ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

Are you planning to zone-push Bactris sp. as well? I'm gonna be zone pushing a Bactris major in zone 10a and see how it does.

ever tasted the fruit of bactris major or any other bactris?  i don't collect palms, but recently i started to get more serious about collecting plants with edible fruit.  bellamy trees has seeds of bactris ferruginea for $.25 each, which is tempting.  

do you grow any fruit trees?  i'm pretty interested in garcinias, there's a really good one in puerto vallarata called "luc's garcinia".  i have a small one, it grows very slowly.  i'm also interested in capulin cherries (prunus salicifolia).  this is common in mexico?  there are some varieties with larger fruit that i'd like to find.  

[idontknowhatnametuse]

3 hours ago, epiphyte said:

ever tasted the fruit of bactris major or any other bactris?  i don't collect palms, but recently i started to get more serious about collecting plants with edible fruit.  bellamy trees has seeds of bactris ferruginea for $.25 each, which is tempting.  

do you grow any fruit trees?  i'm pretty interested in garcinias, there's a really good one in puerto vallarata called "luc's garcinia".  i have a small one, it grows very slowly.  i'm also interested in capulin cherries (prunus salicifolia).  this is common in mexico?  there are some varieties with larger fruit that i'd like to find.  

I grow a Coconut palm and 2 Acrocomia aculeata, which are related to Bactris. Out of that I only have 2 potted avocado trees.