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Caryota rumphiana
About
Caryota rumphiana, whose common names include the fishtail or Albert palm, is a Caryota or fish tail palm. It is native to Philippines, Sulawesi, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago. Its leaves have a distinctive fishtail shape and its flowers have been described as mop-like. It is monocarpic. These leaves are bipinnate with as many as 1,800 fan-shaped or wedge-shaped leaflets, each up to 15 inches long by six inches wide.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Caryota rumphiana
- Slug
- caryota-rumphiana
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Caryota
- Species
- rumphiana
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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