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Wodyetia bifurcata, the foxtail palm, is a species of palm in the family Arecaceae, native to Queensland, Australia. [1] It is the sole species in the genus Wodyetia . The Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia (PACSOA) describes this palm as follows:
Seeds of the foxtail palm. The Cape Melville incident was a series of events that took place in Cape Melville National Park and Cooktown police station in Queensland, Australia, on 11 November 1993. The incident precipitated a political scandal for the Labor State Government known as the Cape Melville affair or Foxtail palm affair.
Normanbya normanbyi is visually very similar to the more well-known Foxtail palm but is slightly smaller in all respects. [7] It is a single-stemmed palm with attractive "bushy" fronds, similar to a bottlebrush.
Sailors use ‘HELP’ sign made of palm trees to escape stranding on remote Pacific island ... on 31 March. Their boat, a 20-foot open skiff with an outboard motor, sustained damage and the men ...
Bardomiano Bautista-Perez, 39, became pinned by the fronds as he worked halfway up giant tree
But she added that even fire-resistant trees can burn, and she recommended removing dead limbs, leaves and debris from all vegetation. A burned palm tree stands among the charred ruins of a home ...
Eventually the lowest palm frond dies back, the outer layer of the crownshaft splits, the leaf unwraps and pulls away from the trunk exposing the new crownshaft surface. In time the old leaf separates at the base and falls away leaving the distinct rings and ridges of the leafbase scars seen on the trunks of many species of palm.
Some fronds are not pinnately compound (or simple), but may be palmate, costapalmate, or bifurcate. There is a spectrum from costapalmate to palmate. Costapalmate fronds are shaped like the palm of a hand and have a short midrib or costa. Palmate fronds are also shaped like the palm of the hand, but all ribs or leaflets arise from a central area.