Pacaya palm, Tepejilote

This sturdy palm grows 2 to 7 m tall. It generally has a single trunk, 2 to 8 cm in diameter, but may sometimes develop several trunks. Buttress roots sometimes grow at the base of the stems. It has 3 to 7 pinnate palm leaves from 1 to 2 m long. Its fruit is black when ripe, 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, and borne on orange stems.