South American Jelly Palm
Butia odorata (Barb.Rodr.) Noblick
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 3.8 m
Arecaceae
Formerly Butia nehrlingiana, Butia pulposa, Cocos erythrospatha, Cocos lilaceiflora, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) to UruguayKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, yellow, orange, purple, greenRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension cream, white; Wikipedia green, orange, purple, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -11.1 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; Wikipedia -10 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Portuguese
- Butiá-da-praia, Butiá-roxo
- Dutch
- Strandgeleipalm
- Spanish
- Palmera butiá
- Chinese (China)
- 布迪椰子
- Slovak
- butia voňavá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Butia odorata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.