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Calamus draco has stems in clusters forming individual rattan stems climbing up to 15 m., with sheaths to 30 mm diameter. Leaf fronds are described as cirrate (with a cirrus: extension of the rattan leaf tip armed with grappling hooks), produced from leaf-sheaths, which are bright green, bearing chocolate-coloured indumentum when young: they are 2.5 m long including petiole (up to 300 mm and ...
Dragon's blood, powdered pigment or apothecary's grade and roughly crushed incense, extracted from Calamus draco. Dragon's blood is a bright red resin which is obtained from different species of a number of distinct plant genera: Calamus spp. (previously Daemonorops) also including Calamus rotang, Croton, Dracaena and Pterocarpus.
Calamus draco, syn. Daemonorops draco. Daemonorops was a genus of rattan palms in the family Arecaceae. [1] Its species are now included within the genus Calamus. [2] Species now placed in Daemonorops are dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate individuals. [3]
Calamus is a genus of flowering plants in the palm family Arecaceae that is one of several genera known as rattan palms. There are an estimated 400 species in this genus, all native to tropical and subtropical Asia , Africa , and Australia .
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Calamus thwaitesii in southwestern India Juvenile Calamus oblongus subsp. mollis in a forest understory in the Philippines. Rattan, also spelled ratan (from Malay: rotan), is the name for roughly 600 species of Old World climbing palms belonging to subfamily Calamoideae.
Croton draco, a spurge in the genus Croton; Calamus draco, a palm formerly in the genus Daemonorops; Dracaena draco, a tree native to the Canary Islands; Pterocarpus officinalis, a tree in genus Pterocarpus; Dracaena cinnabari, also called the Socotra dragon tree; Harungana madagascariensis, a flowering plant found in Madagascar
Bukit Tigapuluh National Park (also called Bukit Tiga Puluh and Bukit Tigapulah) - The Thirty Hills - is a 143,223-hectare National Park in eastern Sumatra, consisting primarily of tropical lowland forest, largely in Riau province, with a smaller part of 33,000 ha in Jambi province.