An East Indian palm tree that produces edible fruit and is used for various purposes by indigenous peoples.
From Sanskrit or another Indo-European language; the word traveled through trade routes and colonial contact into European botanical nomenclature.
The caba palm represents the incredible diversity of plants that colonial botanists encountered—each one represented not just new resources but entirely different agricultural systems that indigenous peoples had perfected over centuries.
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