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What are the difference between Butia capitata vs. Butia yatay?

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January 20, 20242 yr

What are the visual differences between Butia capitata and Butia yatay?

I'm having trouble finding the identification keys that characterize the 2 species.

Thank you very much for your help!

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January 20, 20242 yr

As I recall capitatas are rare. not many palms called capitata are actually capitata. Many of them are actually butia odorata. Used to be board members who investigated this including traveling to their origins have posted. perhjaps do a search on this site. Yatay is reported to be a bigger palm with longer less recurved petioles than odorata. -If you have the right climate -they want a nice cool season- odoratas look great to my eye, here in my short cool season they dont look as robust as they do in northern florida. I think the color of inflorescences and fruits are the best way to differentiate. DO a few googles searches for these aspects. As a small palm I am not sure you can differentiate them.

Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

Tom Blank

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January 21, 20242 yr

I have a key to Butia ---B. yatay has much bigger seeds and flowers than B. capitata or B. odorata

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January 21, 20242 yr

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@sonoranfans

@edbrown_III

Thank you very much for your help.

Here are a few photos I took last week. So that would be butia odorata... (unfortunately no inflorescence or seeds that would allow me to identify them with certainty).