title: List of plants known as oil palm
text: # List of plants known as oil palm
  
  Oil palm refers to several palms that yield oil from fruit pulp and seeds, primarily
  
  but also:
  
  * Attalea maripa, the maripa palm
  * Cocos nucifera, the coconut palm, which yields coconut oil from its seeds
  * Elaeis oleifera, the American oil palm
  * The genus Elaeis, with just two species, E. guineensis and E. oleifera, referred to as the oil-palm genus
  