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I usually will collect the fruits as well as the seed left behind when an animal eats the fruit, and throw them out all in the woods hoping they will propagate more palm trees. We see a lot of small palms sprouting, but the cabbage palms (we throw those seeds out too) look so similar to the pindo palm when small that I don't know which exactly are coming up. I would guess probably both, though, as they seem to propagate readily from seed.
We tend to do that type of seed dispersal a lot with anything that produces seeds that we want to have more of around here. Heck, we have citrus trees popping up here and there that are the result of just walking around eating tangerines and spitting the seeds out as we walk. We have 5 or 6 citrus trees coming up at the back corner of the garage that I have no idea how they got there.
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