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Clustering fishtail palm or fishtail pal
Caryota mitis
About
Caryota mitis, known as the clustering fishtail palm or fishtail palm, is a species of palm native to Tropical Asia from India to Java to southern China, now sparingly naturalized in southern Florida and in parts of Africa and Latin America. The species was originally described from Vietnam in 1790. In Florida, it grows in hummocks and in disturbed wooded areas.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Caryota mitis
- Slug
- caryota-mitis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Caryota
- Species
- mitis
- Wikidata QID
- Q221543
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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- wikidata (common_name)
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- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryota_mitis