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Fishtail Palm

Caryota Mitis

Photo by heejul1
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Field Notes

Description:

It is green and it has knots in the middle. When you feel this plant it is very bumpy and rough. It is in a bundle and it came out from a plant stem. It droops down.

Species ID Suggestions

Fishtail Palm

Caryota urens

Comments (1)

Hello. It is really important to provide images of plants that cover all or most parts of the plant. There are many palm species that produce the "mop-like cluster" type of inflorescence/infructescence (flowering/fruiting structure) shown in your spotting here. For the suggested species (the genus part I mean), Caryota, the fishtail palm, is known because of the shape of its leaves. So really an image of the leaves would probably be necessary to confidently identify your spotting. (Can you add a photo of the leaves of this plant?). If it is a fishtail palm, it is most likely to be Caryota mitis http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/palm_fishtail.htm and not Caryota urens, which is not listed for Singapore in A Checklist of the Total Vascular Plant Flora of Singapore: Native, Naturalised and Cultivated Species by K. Y. Chong, H. T. W. Tan and R. T. Corlett available at http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/raffles_museum_pub/flora_of_singapore_tc.pdf

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