The oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is native to West and central Africa, and commercial plantations are now expanding in the region. If a full-scale boom developed, it could encroach on crucial ...

It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...

and African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). “It is genuinely tropical forest,” says Ceri Shipton, an archaeologist at University College London who was not involved with the research ...