Acrocomia crispa

Acrocomia crispa is a tall spiny palm tree, from 5 a 7 meters tall with a thin stipe at the base

y at the top but swollen in the middle, changing the name Cuban belly palm in English,

and is strictly related to the genus Acrocomia.

To the trunk when young , it is surrounded by several rings formed by long dark spines,

this also covers the following parts of the large leaves or stalks:

the central rachis, median nerve segments and limbus .

It blooms in spring and its flowers are highly visited by bees., its fruits,

also called corojo, They are round, like miniature coconuts, yellow on the outside,

with a thin shell and very hard endocarp; inside it has a white walnut,

solid, of the same flavor of the dried coconut mass, something softer.

Distribution and habitat
Abundant especially in the Camagüey area, in Cuba, on very rocky calcareous terrain.