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Each value Trefle shows for Elaeis oleifera, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced2 Source not recorded9 Not on the record1 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(Kunth) Cortés	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Fl. Columb. 1: 203 (1897)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1897	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	American oil palm	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	C. & S. Trop. America	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	600 cm	600 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 64, 112, 540	Sourced
Fruit color	red, orange, yellow	orange, red, yellow · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 540	Sourced
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Other
Human usage type	—	cooking_fats_and_oils, fodder · TRY Plant Trait Database · Reported · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 341	Not on the record

Elaeis oleifera (Kunth) Cortés, 1897 12% complete

American oil palm

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