Buriti Palm

Buriti Palm, a name applied in the southern provinces of Brazil to Mauritia vinifera, a fine species of palm, growing 100 to 150 feet high, with fan-shaped leaves and small scaly nuts. Wine is made from the juice of the stem, another drink and a sweetmeat from the reddish-yellow pulp round the seed, hats, hammocks, and cordage from the epidermis of the leaves, and thatch from the old leaves; whilst the stems are used in raft and house-building, the kernels as vegetable ivory, and the roots in medicine. In Para it is called Muriti.