açaí assai palm

Creator:	Marcelo Gonçalves
Language pair:	Portuguese to English
Discipline:	-
Definition / notes:	...This South American palm grows to about 18 m tall, stems are clustered; crownshaft has a reddish tinge; leaves pinnate to 2.7 m long on a short petiole, pinnae are spreading. Inflorescence forms a dense compound head with flowers usually in triads with a mixture of male and female in the one inflorescence; fruit is subglobse, to 0.6 cm diam, purple to black
URL:	http://www.jcu.edu.au/discovernature/common_p1/JCUDEV_005908.html