This plant came it last week in my garden in Mobile Alabama Took me two days to identify it but loved your video. Thanks for helping me figure out what’s growing.
I love this plant. It grows wild in my country (Guatemala). I am so glad to see someone who apreciates the beauty of this plant. Most people in my country don´t like this plant and treat it as a weed since it grows everywhere and they cut it out. I use it in my garden as I think it is very beautiful. I also love the sound it makes in the wind, or when you treat it like a bonsai and keep it indoors in small pots. I just love this plant. I also love eating it. In my country we eat the part of the branch where the seeed comes out but we cut it out before it unfolds and grow those black seeds. We call it pacaya.
I love Pacaya! i eat it raw and have cooked it before. They think that the native Maya cultivated this plant near their habitations to have picaya near to them and convenient to eat. And they thin that Chamaedorea tepijilote was artificially selected by humans and such selection favored the larger flowered seed strains that would produce more picaya per plant and this is basically a semi domesticated food plant that would not be found naturally in the wild with such large flowers if it were not for the artificial selection over a few thousand years by the Maya.
This plant came it last week in my garden in Mobile Alabama
Took me two days to identify it but loved your video. Thanks for helping me figure out what’s growing.
I love this plant. It grows wild in my country (Guatemala). I am so glad to see someone who apreciates the beauty of this plant. Most people in my country don´t like this plant and treat it as a weed since it grows everywhere and they cut it out. I use it in my garden as I think it is very beautiful. I also love the sound it makes in the wind, or when you treat it like a bonsai and keep it indoors in small pots. I just love this plant. I also love eating it. In my country we eat the part of the branch where the seeed comes out but we cut it out before it unfolds and grow those black seeds. We call it pacaya.
I love Pacaya! i eat it raw and have cooked it before. They think that the native Maya cultivated this plant near their habitations to have picaya near to them and convenient to eat. And they thin that Chamaedorea tepijilote was artificially selected by humans and such selection favored the larger flowered seed strains that would produce more picaya per plant and this is basically a semi domesticated food plant that would not be found naturally in the wild with such large flowers if it were not for the artificial selection over a few thousand years by the Maya.
@@ScaryHairyGary This was very illuminating, thanks. It´s kind of like what they did with corn too.