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Caryota rumphiana (jaggery palm)

Synonyms: Caryota rumphiana var. moluccana; Caryota rumphiana var. papuana

Wikipedia Abstract

Caryota rumphiana, whose common names include the Fishtail or Albert palm, is a Caryota or fish tail palm. It is native to Philippines, Sulawesi, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago. Its leaves have a distinctive fishtail shape and its flowers have been described as mop-like. Unusually for a palm, it flowers once and then dies.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  No
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Tree
Height [2]  66 feet (20 m)
Fruit Color [2]  Black

Predators

Aonidiella aurantii (California red scale)[5]
Dysmicoccus brevipes (pineapple mealybug)[6]
Eucalymnatus tessellatus (tessellated scale)[6]
Fiorinia fioriniae (European fiorinia scale)[6]
Parlatoria cinnamomi[6]

Consumers

Shelter for 
Cynopterus sphinx (greater short-nosed fruit bat)[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Cynopterus sphinx, Jay F. Storz and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 613, pp. 1-8 (1999)
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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