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Corypha utan

Corypha utan

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Field Notes

Description:

These palms (like all Corypha) only flower towards the end of their lifetime, but when they do flower they send up a massive inflorescence up to 5m high, and with up to 1 million flowers
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Corypheae
Genus: Corypha
Species: C. utan

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
Scott Frazier
Please use a common name in the common name space (perhaps Gebang Palm or Cabbage Palm) because there is already a dedicated space for scientific name.
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PublishedMay 14, 2013

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