oil palm
A palm with a stout trunk and dense fruit bunches, grown for oils extracted from the fruit and kernels.
Elaeis guineensis
All languages
- English
- oil palm
- Norwegian
- oljepalme
- Japanese
- アブラヤシ — あぶらやし — aburayashi
- Korean
- 기름야자 — gireumyaja
- Spanish
- palma aceitera
- French
- palmier à huile
- German
- Ölpalme
Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.
Reference sources
- World Agroforestry — African oil palm persistent spiral leaf bases, massive pinnate fronds and dense bunches of small pointed ovoid orange-to-black drupes
- Singapore NParks palm field guide — oil palm solitary habit, drooping narrow leaflets, spiny petioles and dense glossy dark fruit infructescence
- Kew herbarium field observation — Elaeis guineensis trunk covered by persistent leaf bases and long arching fronds