PHOTOGRAPH BY JEAN-PHILIPPE SOULÉ 1999

A young cohune palm tree core is edible. It needs to be cut when the base of the branches still sprout from ground level.  If bare trunk is apparant, the tree is already too old to be harvested. You cut at arm height and use the top part.

 

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