From Harold McGee's fabulously scientific book On Food and Cooking[0]: "Hearts of palm are the growing stem tips of various palm trees, especially the South Am

From Harold McGee's fabulously scientific book On Food and Cooking[0]: "Hearts of palm are the growing stem tips of various palm trees, especially the South American peach palm Bactris gasipaes, which readily resprouts after its tip is cut....[Harvesting] hearts of other palms often results in the wasteful death of the entire tree." (emphasis mine) [0]https://books.google.com/books?id=bKVCtH4AjwgC&lpg=PA316&vq=hearts%20of%20palm&pg=PA316#v=snippet&q=hearts%20of%20palm&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=bKVCtH4AjwgC&lpg=PA316&vq=...