생선꼬리야자-Caryota maxima Blume

국표에 이 학명으로는 없다.

 

giant mountain fishtail palm

Stem: Solitary, upright, to 30-35 m tall and 30 cm in diameter, older palms ringed with slender, widely-spaced leaf scars Leaves: Bipinnate, induplicate, to 7 m long, with dull green, pendulous leaflets growing in one plane. The leaflets are obdeltoid and praemorse. Flowers and fruit: Inflorescences are massive, 1-1.5 m long with many pendant branches with staminate flowers and pistillate flowers on the same inflorescence. Fruits are up to 2.5 cm long and pink to dark reddish-purple when ripe.

Solitary palms with bipinnate, praemorse leaflets

Caryota mitis, but C. mitis is a clustering, multi-stem palm.

Native to southern China through Southeast Asia to Java

Extreme care is required when handling the fruits, in which calcium oxylate crystals are found.

The large, pendulous inflorescences of this palm appear on a mature palm at each node (leaf scar ring), ripening from the highest to the lowest. Then the palm dies.

Caryota maxima Blume

Arecaceae/Palmae

Caryota aequatorialis Ridl.

Caryota obtusa, var. aequatorialis Becc

 

Caryota maxima | Identifying Commonly Cultivated Palms (idtools.org)