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Princess Palm - Dictyosperma album - Exotic Palm - 10 Seeds
Princess Palm - Dictyosperma album - Exotic Palm - 10 Seeds
Princess Palm - Dictyosperma album - Exotic Palm - 10 Seeds

Princess Palm - Dictyosperma album - Exotic Palm - 10 Seeds

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PP068
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Dictyosperma is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius, Runion and Rodrigues). The sole species, Dictyosperma album, is widely cultivated in the tropics but has been farmed to near extinction in its native habitat. It is commonly called princess palm or hurricane palm, the latter owing to its ability to withstand strong winds by easily shedding leaves. It is closely related to, and resembles, palms in the Archontophoenix genus. The genus is named from two Greek words meaning "net" and "seed" and the epithet is Latin for "white", the common colour of the crownshaft at the top of the trunk.

The ringed trunks are solitary at 15 cm in diameter with a slight bulge at the base, occasionally reaching up to 12 m in height. The crownshaft is over a meter tall, swollen at the base, and covered in white wax which has given the palm its epithet album and small, matted brown hairs, producing a rounded leaf crown 4.5 m wide and 3 m tall. The 2.5 to 3 m leaves are borne on short 30 cm petioles; the arching leaflets are pointed at the apice, from 60 90 cm, dark green in colour, and emerge from the rachis in a single plane.  On flowering, they produce up to six inflorescences which ring the trunk below the crownshaft, branched to one order, with white to yellow flowers, which are male and female; both pistillate and staminate flowers have three sepals and three petals, the former being smaller than the latter. The ovoid fruit ripen to purple or black in colour, containing one brown, ellipsoidal seed.

 

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01 Sep 2016