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Domestication

Bactris gasipaes was domesticated early in the occupation of the lowland humid neotropics by the indigenous people of the Americas during the pre-Colombian era. There are three hypotheses for the exact origin of cultivated peach palm: There was either (a) a single domestication event in the south western Amazon, (b) a single domestication event in the Colombian inter-Andean valleys and adjacent Pacific lowlands or (c) multiple independent centres of domestication. Besides the Fruits and Seeds for human consumption, the pre-Colombian uses of the tree included the roots as medicine, the stem as timber and building material for tools, the spines for needles, the leaves for thatch and basketry, the heart of palm as vegetable and the flowers as ingredient for flavorings