Big mountain palm (Hedyscepe canterburyana)
Description
A medium sized palm, to about 10 m (33 feet) tall, with a very closely ringed trunk, and a crown of short, silvery leaves. This is a graceful and attractive single-trunked feather palm that grows slowly to 10m (33 feet) tall with a full head of elegant recurved pinnate leaves that come from a blue-green slightly bulbous crown shaft. The trunk is blue green when young and matures to green with regularly and closely spaced ring-like leaf scars. The flowers emerge from below the crown-shaft and are not overly showy. They have ivory-coloured male flowers and purple female flowers but are followed by large showy dull red fruit.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Cycadophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Arecales
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Family: Arecaceae
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Genus: Hedyscepe
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