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Washingtonia robusta (Mexican Fan Palm)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Washingtonia robusta (Mexican fan palm or Mexican washingtonia) is a palm tree native to western Sonora, and Baja California Sur in northwestern Mexico. It is reportedly naturalized in Spain, the Canary Islands, Italy, Réunion, Hawaii, Florida, North Carolina and California.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  No
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Tree
Height [2]  100 feet (30.5 m)
Fruit Color [2]  Black

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  

Predators

Aonidiella aurantii (California red scale)[5]
Colobopyga washingtoniae[5]
Comstockiella sabalis (palmetto scale)[5]
Pseudoparlatoria parlatorioides (false parlatoria scale)[5]
Saissetia coffeae (brown scale)[5]

Consumers

Shelter for 
Dasypterus ega (southern yellow bat)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kissling, 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
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Lasiurus ega, Allen Kurta and Glenn C. Lehr, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 515, pp. 1-7 (1995)
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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