h

(tps/:agroforestryo
.rg)

Home (/) / Free Publications (/free-publications) / Multipurpose Palms You Can Grow

Multipurpose Palms You Can Grow

THE WORLD’S BEST

Table of Contents

1. Palm Facts (/multipurpose-palms-

you-can-grow/palm-facts)

Palm Ethnobotany
Principal Divisions of the Palm
Family
Astonishing Palm Facts

2. Uses of Palms Throughout the

World (/multipurpose-palms-you-
can-grow/palm-uses)

Ecological Uses of Palms

Food Uses of Palms
Building Materials from Palms

3. The Coconut Palm (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/coconut-palms)

The Coconut is Used Throughout the World

Ecological Uses of the Coconut
The Coconut for Nourishment
Craft Uses of the Coconut

4. Palms for Staple Food (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-staple-food)

The Coconut
The Date Palm
The Palmyra Palms
The Doum Palms
The Buriti Palm

5. Palms for Edible Fruits (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-edible-fruit)

The Salak Palm

The Peach Palm
The Rattan Palms /
 The Chonta Palm

6. Palms for Drinks, Sugar and Starch (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-drinks-sugar-

starch)

The Nipa Palm

The Raphia Palms
The Sago Palms
The Sugar Palm
The Fishtail Palm

7. Palms for Vegetables (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-vegetables)

The Pacaya Palms

The Peach Palm
The Coconut Palm
The Assai Palm

8. Palms for Oil (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-oil)

The African Oil Palm

The Coconut Palm
The Babassu Palm
The Murumuru and Other Wild Palms

9. Cultivating Palms (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/cultivating)

Collecting Seeds and Plants

Germination Seeds
Care in the Nursery
Planting Out Palms

 Copyright © 1999 All Rights Reserved

 Prev (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/palm-facts)

SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERSTORY

Name

Last Name

E-mail

I'm not a robot /

CAPTCHA
 reCAPTCHA
Privacy - Terms

SUBSCRIBE

FREE PUBLICATIONS

Agroforestry Guides for Paci c Islands (/free-publications/agroforestry-guides)

Specialty Crops for Agroforestry 

Traditional Trees (/free-publications/traditional-tree-pro les)

Tropical Agroforestry Articles (/free-publications/agroforestry-articles)

Multipurpose Palms You Can Grow 

Facts (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/palm-facts)
Uses (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/palm-uses)
Coconut Palm (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/coconut-palms)
For Staple Food (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-staple-food)
For Edible Fruit (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-edible-fruit)
For Drinks, Sugar, Starch (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-drinks-sugar-starch)
For Vegetables (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-vegetables)
For Oil (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/for-oil)
Cultivating (/multipurpose-palms-you-can-grow/cultivating)

Forestry Technology 

Nitrogen Fixing Trees 

Sheet Mulching (/free-publications/sheet-mulching)

Working with Weeds (/free-publications/working-with-weeds)

Not Seeing the Forest (/free-publications/not-seeing-the-forest)

Adding Value to Crops (/free-publications/adding-value-to-crops)

Agroforestry Landscapes (/free-publications/agroforestry-landscapes)

SUPPORT THE OVERSTORY

/
  


(https://www.facebook.com/agroforestry.org/)
      


(https://www.instagram.com/agroforestrynet/)
 

 (https://www.facebook.com/agroforestry.org/)   

  

 (https://www.instagram.com/agroforestrynet/)
 

Our Unique Books (/books) | Become an Intern (/projects/agroforestry-internship) | Email

Agroforestry (/about-us/email-agroforestry/view/form) | Read the Overstory eJournal (/the-
overstory) | Many Free Resources (/free-publications)

Copyright © 1997–2019 Agroforestry Net, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Website Build | Design: InCreation (https://www.increation.com)