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Corypha umbraculifera, the talipot palm, is a species of palm native to eastern and southern India and Sri Lanka. It is also grown in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Mauritius and the Andaman Islands. [3] It is one of the five accepted species in the genus Corypha. [4] It is a flowering plant with the largest inflorescence in the world. It lives ...
Corypha or the gebang palm, buri palm or talipot palm is a genus of palms (family Arecaceae), native to India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea and northeastern Australia (Cape York Peninsula, Queensland). They are fan palms (subfamily Coryphoideae), and the leaves have a long petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous ...
The Coryphoideae is one of five subfamilies in the palm family, Arecaceae. [2] [3] [4] It contains all of the genera with palmate leaves, excepting Mauritia, Mauritiella and Lepidocaryum, all of subfamily Calamoideae, tribe Lepidocaryeae, subtribe Mauritiinae.
Growing along watercourses, floodplains and grasslands, the Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia write about the Corypha utan palms occurring in Cape York: Corypha utan .. is undoubtedly one of the most imposing species in the Australian palm flora (with its massive pachycaul trunks and hapaxanthic flowering and fruiting extravaganza. [5]
Corypheae is a tribe of palm trees [1] [2] in the subfamily Coryphoideae. [3] In previous classifications, tribe Corypheae included four subtribes: Coryphinae, Livistoninae, Thrinacinae and Sabalinae, [4] but recent phylogenetic studies have led to the genera within these subtribes being transferred into other tribes (Chuniophoeniceae, Trachycarpeae, Cryosophileae and Sabaleae).
Corypha taliera is a species of palm, originally native to Myanmar and the Bengal region of India and Bangladesh. [2] It was first discovered by Scottish botanist William Roxburgh. It has been listed extinct in the wild in the IUCN Red List. [1] The species is locally known as Tali Palm or Talipalm.
Trachycarpus takil (the Kumaon palm) is similar to T. fortunei and probably even hardier. Other species less common in cultivation are T. geminisectus, T. princeps, T. latisectus, T. martianus, T. nanus and T. oreophilus. Trachycarpus martianus and T. latisectus do not tolerate cold as well as T. fortunei or T. takil.
The sastras are made of dried palm leaves from the Corypha lecomtei palm tree or more often from the traeng tree, also known as talipot palm and by its scientific name of corypha umbraculifera. [1] Once cut off from the tree, the leaves are ordered, cleaned, heated, straightened, and tied together in what is known as an olla book or palm-leaf ...