African Oil Palm
ఆయిల్ పాంഎണ്ണപ്പനঅয়েলপাম
Elaeis guineensis Jacq.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 18 m
- wide
- 5.0 m
Arecaceae
Formerly Elaeis cirrhosa, Elaeis dybowskii, Elaeis humilis, Elaeis madagascariensis, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 18 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 20–20 m; Plants for a Future 15–15 m
- Spread
- 5.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Chinese
- 盐匏藤果, 油棕根, 油棕
- Asturian
- palmera aceitera
- Slovenian
- oljna palma
- Simplified Chinese
- 油棕, 油椰子
- Telugu
- ఆయిల్ పాం, ఆయిల్ పామ్, ఆయిల్ పామ్
- Bangla
- অয়েলপাম
- Malayalam
- എണ്ണപ്പന
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Elaeis guineensis (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.