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Copernicia alba
About
Copernicia alba is a South American species of palm tree, which is found in the Humid Chaco ecoregion in Bolivia, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. They often, but not always, form dense single-species woodlands. Its common names in Spanish show the various colours that the trunk takes according to its environment: palma blanca, palma negra, palma colorada. In Guaraní, it is called caranday, "water palm". Its English trade name is wax palm or caranday wax palm.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Copernicia alba
- Slug
- copernicia-alba
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Copernicia
- Species
- alba
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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