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Cabbage Palm
Cabbage palm is a common name for several species of palms or palm-like plants: *'' Cordyline fruticosa'', a tropical tree native to Asia and Polynesia *'' Corypha utan'', an East Asian fan palm (including Northern Australia) *''Euterpe oleracea'', a Brazilian palm tree *'' Livistona australis'', an Australian palm *'' Roystonea oleracea'', a Caribbean palm *''Sabal palmetto ''Sabal palmetto'' (, ''Help:Pronunciation respelling key, SAY-bəl''), also known as cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto, sabal palm, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, Garfield's tree, and swamp cabbage, is one of 15 species of Saba ...'', native to the south-eastern USA, Cuba and the Bahamas See also * Cabbage tree {{Plant common name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordyline Fruticosa
''Cordyline fruticosa'' is an evergreen flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is known by a wide variety of common names, including ti plant, palm lily, cabbage palm. The plant has been cultivated in Asia and Oceania, with a number of uses including food and traditional medicine. It is of great cultural importance to the traditional inhabitants of the Pacific Islands and Maritime Southeast Asia. Description It is a palm-like plant growing up to tall with an attractive fan-like and spirally arranged cluster of broadly elongated leaves at the tip of the slender trunk. The leaves range from red to green and variegated forms. It is a woody plant with leaves (rarely ) long and wide at the top of a woody stem. It produces long panicles of small scented yellowish to red flowers that mature into red berries. Taxonomy ''Cordyline fruticosa'' was formerly listed as part of the families Agavaceae and Laxmanniaceae (now both subfamilies of the Asparagaceae in the APG III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corypha Utan
''Corypha utan'', the cabbage palm, buri palm or gebang palm, is a species of palm native to Asia and Oceania. Description It grows up to tall, and, on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, up to thick (exceeded only by '' Borassus aethiopum'' and '' Jubaea chilensis'') and bears palmate fronds long. The subspecies or variety C.u. macropoda of the Andaman Islands has a blade or lamina up to in diameter mounted on stalks ( laminae) up to in length. Like other palms of the genus '' Corypha'', this species flowers once at the end of its lifetime (monocarpy), producing a massive inflorescence up to 5 m tall containing up to one million flowers.''Corypha utan'' Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia web page Accessed 20 June 2009 Distribution and habitat [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euterpe Oleracea
Euterpe (; , from + ) was one of the Muses in Greek mythology, presiding over music. In late Classical times, she was named muse of lyric poetry. She has been called "Giver of delight" by ancient poets. Mythology Euterpe was born as one of the daughters of Mnemosyne, Titan goddess of memory, and fathered by Zeus, god of the gods. Her sisters include Calliope (muse of epic poetry), Clio (muse of history), Melpomene (muse of tragedy), Terpsichore (muse of dancing), Erato (muse of erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy). Sometimes they are referred to as water nymphs having been born from the four sacred springs on Helicon which flowed from the ground after Pegasus, the winged horse, stamped his hooves on the ground. The mountain spring Cassotis on Mount Parnassus was sacred to Euterpe and the other Muses. It flowed between two high rocks above the city of Delphi, and in ancient times its sacred waters were retai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livistona Australis
''Livistona australis'', the cabbage-tree palm, is an Australian plant species in the family Arecaceae. It is a tall, slender palm growing up to about 25 m in height and 0.35 m diameter.Boland ''et al.'', pp. 71–72. It is crowned with dark, glossy green leaves on petioles 2 m long. It has leaves plaited like a fan; the terminal bud of these is small but sweet. In summer it bears flower spikes with sprigs of cream-white flowers. The trees accumulate dead fronds or leaves, which when the plant is in cultivation are often removed by an arborist. It is the namesake of the Tharawal people (i.e. after its native name in their language) residing on the coast of present day Wollongong. Seeking protection from the sun, early European settlers in Australia used fibre from the native palm to create the cabbage tree hat, a distinctive form of headwear during the colonial era. Distribution and habitat Mostly this plant is found in moist open forest, often in swampy sites and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roystonea Oleracea
''Roystonea oleracea'', sometimes known as the Caribbean royal palm, palmiste, imperial palm or cabbage palm, is a species of palm which is native to the Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Trinidad and Tobago. It is also reportedly naturalized in Guyana and on the islands of Mauritius and Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Its specific epithet ''oleracea'' means "vegetable/herbal" in Latin and is a form of (). The plant's buds was eaten in the West Indies. Description ''Roystonea oleracea'' is a large palm which reaches heights of , with the record being not including the crownshaft or fronds. Stems are grey or whitish-grey. and range from in diameter. The upper portion of the stem is encircled by leaf sheaths, forming a green portion known as the crownshaft which is normally about long. Individuals are reported to have 16–22 or 20–22 leaves. Leaves are once-pinnate and consist of a long petiole and a rachis. The leaflets are attached to the rachis at various ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabal Palmetto
''Sabal palmetto'' (, ''Help:Pronunciation respelling key, SAY-bəl''), also known as cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto, sabal palm, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, Garfield's tree, and swamp cabbage, is one of 15 species of Sabal, palmetto Arecaceae, palm. It is native to the Southeast United States, the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, the West Indies, and the Bahamas. Description ''Sabal palmetto'' grows up to tall, with the tallest on record measuring at 93 feet tall. Starting at half to two-thirds the height, the tree develops into a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflet (botany), leaflets. A costapalmate leaf has a definite costa (midrib), unlike the typical palmate or fan leaf, but the leaflets are arranged radially like in a palmate leaf. All costapalmate leaves are about across, produced in large compound panicles up to in radius, extending out beyond the leaves. The fruit is a black drupe about long containing a single seed. It is extremely Halo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
