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This palm does not perform well in hot, humid tropical climates. Butia palm or jelly palm, pindo palm (Butia odorata) [10] [11] – Along with Jubaea, possibly the hardiest known pinnate-leaved palm. B. odorata is a palm native to Brazil and Uruguay. [10] This palm grows up to 6 m (20 ft), exceptionally 8 m (26 ft), in a slow but steady manner.
Chamaerops humilis is a shrub-like clumping palm, with several stems growing from a single base. It has an underground rhizome which produces shoots with palmate, sclerophyllous leaves. The stems grow slowly and often tightly together, eventually reaching 2–5 m (10–20 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of 20–25 cm (8–10 in).
Growing to 12–20 m (39–66 ft) tall, Trachycarpus fortunei is a single-stemmed fan palm.The diameter of the trunk is up to 15–30 cm (6–12 in). Its texture is very rough, with the persistent leaf bases clasping the stem as layers of coarse dark grey-brown fibrous material.
Howea belmoreana, the curly palm, kentia palm, or Belmore sentry palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, endemic to Lord Howe Island, Australia. It and Howea forsteriana probably evolved from a common ancestor through sympatric speciation . [ 2 ]
Caryota urens is a species of flowering plant in the palm family, native to Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar and Malaysia (perhaps elsewhere in Indo-Malayan region), where they grow in fields and rainforest clearings, it is regarded as introduced in Cambodia. [2] [3] The epithet urens is Latin for "stinging" alluding to the chemicals in the fruit.
Those having a tree-like form are colloquially called palm trees. [4] Currently, 181 genera with around 2,600 species are known, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] most of which are restricted to tropical and subtropical climates.
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Washingtonia filifera is the only palm native to the Western United States and one of the country's largest native palms, [9] [10] exceeded in height only by the Cuban or Florida royal palm. [ 7 ] Primary populations are found in desert riparian habitats at spring-fed and stream-fed oases in the Colorado Desert [ 11 ] and at a few scattered ...