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Raphia hookeri
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Raphia hookeri is a palm species in the family Arecaceae or Palmae. It is found in Western and Central Africa, where it is locally used to make palm wine. It is best noted for its very long leaflets which in the subspecies R. h. gigantea, of Ghana and Ivory Coast, can be 11 ft 6 in in length, while only two inches wide. These are the longest leaflets known from any plant.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Raphia hookeri
- Slug
- raphia-hookeri
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Raphia
- Species
- hookeri
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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