Açaí
அச்சாய் பனைഅസ്സായി പന
Euterpe oleracea Mart.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- —
Arecaceae
Also called Assai palm
Formerly Catis martiana, Euterpe badiocarpa, Euterpe beardii, Euterpe brasiliana, and 1 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
- Trinidad to S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 4.0 m to 18 mRead from LLifle, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from LLifle, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from LLifle, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Asturian
- asaí
- Chinese
- 千叶菜椰, 菜椰
- Tamil
- அச்சாய் பனை, அகாய் பனை
- Malayalam
- അസ്സായി പന
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- LLifle, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Euterpe oleracea (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.