In the soft and fleshy part of the palm at the base of the thumb were the scars of several wounds.
The fleshy part is juicy, and somewhat like the cashew-apple, with a pleasant acidity added.
The long, slender root becomes fleshy and tender under cultivation, with a flavor, when cooked, somewhat resembling that of the mollusk for which it is named.
In four instances, the testa was removed from one end of the seed and the fleshy cotyledons eaten from the centre.
In sites of low fleshy fruit availability monkeys preferred to be seed predators.
The limb of the leaves appears to have been fleshy, and compression of the tissue has tended to mask any surface features.
