''Attalea cohune'', commonly known as the cohune palm (also rain tree, American oil palm, corozo palm or manaca palm), is a species of

palm tree The Arecaceae () is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are colloquially c ...

native to

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

and parts of

Central America Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...

. The cohune palm is used in the production of cohune oil and its nut can be used as a variety of

vegetable ivory Vegetable ivory or Phytelephas, tagua nut is a product made from the very hard white endosperm of the seeds of certain Arecaceae, palm trees. Vegetable ivory is named for its resemblance to ivory, animal ivory. Vegetable ivory is naturally white ...

Example occurrences

A chief occurrence as a dominant plant is in the Belizean pine forests ecoregion.C. Michael Hogan & World Wildlife Fund. 2012
Belizean pine forests. ed. M. McGinley. Encyclopedia of Earth. Washington DC

References

cohune Plants described in 1844 Trees of Belize Trees of Northern America Trees of El Salvador Trees of Guatemala Trees of Honduras {{tree-stub