Caryota gigas Hahn ex Hodel

국표에 없다.

Origin and Habitat: Naan Province, Northern Thailand.
Habitat: Foothills and mountain.

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Black Trunk Palm, King Kong Thai Giant, Blak Trunk Fishtail Palm, Mountain Giant Palm, Thailand mountain palm, Thai Giant Caryota, Thai fishtail palm, Fishtail palms, Giant fishtail palm
FRENCH (Français): Palmiers queue-de-poisson
GEORGIAN (ქართული): კარიოტა

 

Description: This is a massive palm that in its native habit grows up to 35 (or more) m hight, but usually less than 20 m tall in cultivation. This tree will reach maximum height in about 25 years. It is considered by many the most beautiful of all the 'hardy' Fishtail Palms. It also has even spacing rounder leaflets creating a very appealing lacy pattern and, like all fishtail palms, it is monocarpic, lives a relatively short life and makes seeds only once when it dies. However, young caryotas are virtually indistinguishable. More mature ones are much easier to identify. Caryota gigasSN|24267]]SN|24266]] and Caryota obtusa are pretty much identical even when mature.
Trunk: Large, single, non-crownshafted, 1-2 m across at the base, with distinctive dark to almost black colour near the crown, that distingush this species from other fishtail palms like Caryota urensSN|24280]]SN|24280]], Caryota maxima and Caryota mitisSN|24266]]SN|24267]] which have a white tomentum near the crown. Further down, the trunks become giant, grey, markedly ringed poles of solid material. (Caryotas have an extremely hard wood and some of the densest wood in all the palm world)
Crown: Very wide about 12 meters, so leave it lots of room.
Leaf type: Bipinnate, very firm, not bending upright easily; leaflets wavy, fern-like, often several off-tones of green.
Inflorescence: Flower stalk about 35 cm long coming from among the leaves.
Flower: Cream.
Seed: Dull grey. Round with groves.

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