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Acrocomia fusiformis
Macaw bush (Bot.), a West Indian name for a prickly kind of nightshade (Solanum mammosum). Macaw palm, Macaw tree (Bot.), a tropical American palm (Acrocomia fusiformis and other species) having a prickly stem and pinnately divided leaves. Its nut yields a yellow butter, with the perfume of violets, which is used in making violet soap. Called also grugru palm.

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- Acrocomia is a genus of palms which is native to the Neotropics, ranging from Mexico in the north, through Central America and the Caribbean, and through...
- Acrocomia aculeata is a species of palm native to the Neotropics. Common names include grugru palm, gloo gloo, corojo, macaúba palm, coyol palm, and macaw...
- Acrocomia intumescens, the macaúba-barriguda tree, is a palm tree in the genus Acrocomia. It is native to the Brazilian states of Alagoas, Pernambuco,...
- Acrocomia media is a species of palm which is native to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Acrocomia media is a pinnately leaved palm with a solitary...
- South America). Acrocomia crispa: Cuba; until recently this species was considered to belong to a monotypic genus, Gastrococos. Acrocomia media: Puerto...
- Acrocomia h****leri is a species of palm which is native to southern Brazil (State of Mato Grosso do Sul) and Paraguay. Kew World Checklist of Selected...
- Acrocomia crispa, the Cuban belly palm or corojo, a palm species which is endemic to Cuba. Formerly placed in its own genus, Gastrococos, recent work...
- Other species used include sabal palmettos (Sabal spp.), grugru palms (Acrocomia aculeata), royal palms (Roystonea spp.), Astrocaryum spp., maripa palms...
- SyagrusSouth America ParajubaeaAndes Subtribe BactridinaeAmericas AcrocomiaAmericas AstrocaryumAmericas Aiphanes – NW South America, Caribbean...
- the Pantanal, hyacinth macaws feed almost exclusively on the nuts of Acrocomia aculeata and Attalea phalerata palm trees. This behaviour was recorded...