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Trachycarpus fortunei (Chusan Palm)

Synonyms: Chamaerops excelsa; Chamaerops fortunei (homotypic); Trachycarpus caespitosus; Trachycarpus wagnerianus

Wikipedia Abstract

Trachycarpus fortunei 'Wagnerianus' is unknown in the wild, but may have originated in cultivation in Japan, where it was first discovered by the horticulturalist Albert Wagner of Leipzig, Germany in the second half of the 19th century (in 1873). It has remained in comparative obscurity until recently, when its qualities as a garden plant were at last realized.
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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Fruit Conspicuous [1]  No
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Dioecious
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [2]  The flowers are sweetly scented.
Structure [2]  Tree
Usage [2]  The fibres cloaking the trunk are used to make ropes and cloth; The fibres from within the leafstalk are used for making brushes, ropes, coarse cloth etc; A matting is made from the bark admixed with some of the stem fibres; The leaves are woven into hats, rough coats and fans;
Height [2]  39 feet (12 m)
Width [2]  6.56 feet (2 m)
Fruit Color [1]  Black
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Avon Gorge Woodlands 376 England, United Kingdom

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0