Cabbage-palm

Cabbage-palm, or CABBAGE-TREE, a name given in different countries to different species of Palm, the great terminal bud of which is eaten cooked like cabbage, or sometimes also raw in salads. The Cabbage-palm of Brazil and the West Indies is Areca (Euterpe) oleracea. In the southern states of America the Palmetto (q.v.) is also used in the same way. The coco-nut palm (Cocos nucifera) and others are also sometimes similarly employed, of course in all cases at the total sacrifice of the tree.