jupati

Updated: May 21, 2025

The tides are extremely intricate throughout all the infinite channels and creeks which intersect the lands of the Amazons delta. The moon now broke forth and lighted up the trunks of colossal trees, the leaves of monstrous Jupati palms which arched over the creek, and revealed groups of arborescent arums standing like rows of spectres on its banks.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Now appears the miriti, or mauritia one of the most beautiful of its tribe, with pendent clusters of glossy fruit, and enormous spreading fan-like leaves cut into ribbons; the jupati, with plume-like leaves forty feet and upwards in length, graceful in the extreme, starting almost from the ground.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America