Caryota rumphiana

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Colour photo of a large palm tree with several green tresses of many threads hanging from the base of its branches. Its leaves are distinctly fishtail shaped, and it has grown to the roof of a very large greenhouse
At twenty metres it only just fits inside Kew's palm house (view from the high walkway).

Caryota rumphiana, whose common names include the Fishtail or Albert palm is a Caryota or fish tail palm from South East Asia.[1] Its leaves have a distinctive fishtail shape and its flowers have been described as mop-like. Unusually for a palm it flowers once and then dies.

References

  1. ↑ ars-grin retrieved 30 July 2009
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