PALM - JELLY OR WINE PALM
By Forest and Kim Starr CC BY 2.0 (Photo Credits)Botanical Name: Butia capitata
Description
Other Names: Wine Palm
The Butia or Jelly palm yields a host of edible and useful products. They have large stalks of golden fruit in clusters. The fruit is green before it ripens, then turns golden, sometimes having a reddish tinge when ready to eat. Soft, tasty flesh surrounds a hard seed that looks like a miniature coconut. Simply peel the flesh away and eat it, prepare a soft puree, or use Butia Palm fruit in jelly. The taste is delicious and starts out like apple and transforms into tropical like flavours similar to an apricot/banana mix. Although delicious when eaten fresh they are most often preserved due to their stringy fibrous flesh. Jelly palm fruits are picked as they ripen. If whole bunches are harvested, they tend to ripen all at once. They keep well under refrigeration for around a week. This South American palm is native to Brazil and is the hardiest feather-leafed palm in cultivation. The palm has beautiful blue-green leaves that are strongly curved making it instantly recognisable. It is an essential palm for the exotic garden and is also a wonderful indoor plant providing light is adequate. For best results fertilize the Palm in the spring, and in mid summer. The spent leaves should be cut to improve its appearance. A long living palm (over 20 years) it enjoys full sun or part shade and thrives in a sandy loam soil. Adequate moisture will greatly improve yields.
Plant Information or Specifications
Preferred Climate
Subtropical, Warm Temperate
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Seedling
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Max Height (when in the ground with good conditions)
5-10m
Plants required to Pollinate
3 Plants (Male and Female)
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Can it Handle Frosts?
Yes
Amount of leaves in Winter?
All Leaves (Evergreen)
Water Requirements
Drought Hardy (Little Watering)
Is it a Dwarf Fruit Tree?
No (Full Size)
Time to Fruit/Flower/Harvest
5+ Years
Sun or Shade
Full (Sun:80%-100%)
Preferred Soil Type
Good Drainage
Soil pH
Neutral (6.6-7.3pH)
Fruiting/Harvest Months
February, March, April
Customer Comments on Palm - Jelly or Wine Palm
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Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
$3500 to $4000 : Daleysfruit are selling this edible palm at a bargain price of only about $15. If you visit landsendtexotics.co.nz you will see their cheapest is nearly $4000 ! | Rolf - Bankstown, NSW 20-Sep-2006
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
Other Jelly Palms,eg those as existing street trees and in private gardens,aren't as good tasting as Daley's Jelly Palm variety.Daley's Jelly Palm might be from a superior seed.Daley's is less stringy,less acid and better tasting. | Rolflor A - Sydney, N S W 23-Feb-2009
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
This is a good tasting palm fruit. | Rolflor A - Sydney, NSW 23-Feb-2009
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
Chinese names and chinese characters for the Jelly Palm. - http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Butia.html#capitata . It also mentions a subspecies ' yatay '. Is Daley's Jelly Palm a subspecies? | Rolflora - Sydney, NSW 27-Feb-2009
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
One of the Jelly Palms took 5 years and 2 months to fruit,with about 500 fruits/4.5kgs. | Rolflor A - Sydney, NSW 01-Mar-2009
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
I bought a jelly palm from Daleys about 4 yrs ago. I live in an area of -5 to 45deg temperature range and my palm is doing really well Admittedly mine is in a pot and hasn`t fruited yet.I am about to plant into the ground soon . | Anne Mcalpine - Ballimore, NSW 10-Feb-2010
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
I am on the Central Coast NSW and moved a jelly palm ( Butia capitata) about 1 km 9 years ago. It took an earth mover and huge semi trailer! it had been in its old position for over 50 years. It's still fruiting well and growing beautifully! | Sara Powter - Kincumber, NSW 21-Feb-2010
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
I believe the difference between a Butia capitata and Butia yatay is that the yatay drops its frons and the capitata doesn't! The frons make a beautiful 'cap' or skirt around the palm stem if left uncut. | Sara Powter - Kincumber, NSW 21-Feb-2010
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
Butia Capitata globule fruits, the B. Yatay teardrop fruit. In Adelaide garden about 10 years before fruiting. Each year 3 huge bracts laden with aromatic fruits. Pick when bright orange, wash, boil 2 hours, de-stone then squeeze out juice. Cordial/jelly. | Suzanne Hirst - Adelaide, S.A. 20-Apr-2010
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
Delicious edible juice from fruits, combination of quince, passionfruit, pineapple, apricot, strawberry all in one. Strong & tart, requires sweetening to taste. | Suzanne Hirst, - Adelaide, S.A. 20-Apr-2010
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
Slow grower, but produces delicious and prolific fruit. Worth the wait! Bag young fruit spikes with a large white feed bag to out-compete the rats, bats and birds. Easily handles light frosts | Simone - Barkers Vale, NSW 11-Feb-2014
Jelly Palm or Wine Palm
There is a very old butia capitata or jelly palm fruiting in the City Botanic Gardens Brisbane at present, Feb 2015 and I saw two palms at Hahndorf near Adelaide that bear heavy crops of fruit every May and I love the sweet @ sour taste of these fruit | Noel Hall - Inala 4077, QLD 13-Feb-2015
Palm - Jelly or Wine Palm
I live in a very cold area in nsw mid west this palm is very suited to this area | Peter Hegener - Yeoval, NSW 14-Aug-2017
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Palm - Jelly or Wine Palm Amanda19's Edible FruitsUpdate: 3408 days 5hrs Comments: - I know it thrives here and it sounds like it makes good grog! :) Was this review helpful? Yes | No | Report 4 of 4 people found this review useful |