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Bottle palm has a large swollen (sometimes bizarrely so) trunk. It is a myth that the trunk is a means by which the palm stores water. Bottle palms have only four to six leaves open at any time. The leaves of young palms have a red or orange tint, but a deep green is assumed at maturity. The flowers of the palm arise from under the crownshaft.
Brachychiton rupestris (commonly known as the narrow-leaved bottle tree or Queensland bottle tree) is a tree in the family Malvaceae, [a] endemic to Queensland, Australia. Described by Sir Thomas Mitchell and John Lindley in 1848, it earned its name from its bulbous trunk , which can be up to 3.5 metres (11 ft) in diameter at breast height (DBH).
Hyophorbe is a genus of five known species of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae, native to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean.All five species can attain heights of over 6 meters, and two of the species develop swollen trunks that have made them popular as ornamentals, [1] [2] but all of them are endangered in the wild.
Ganoderma zonatum is a plant pathogen that infects the palm species causing butt rot.It is a fungus that infects the bottom 122–152 centimeters (4–5 feet) of the plant also rotting the roots.
Coconut palm diseases (19 P) P. Pests of oil palm (10 P) Pages in category "Palm diseases" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Lethal yellowing (LY) is a phytoplasma disease that attacks many species of palms, including some commercially important species, such as the coconut and date palm.In the Caribbean, it is spread by the planthopper Haplaxius crudus (former name Myndus crudus) which is native to Florida, parts of the Caribbean, parts of Australia and Central America. [1]
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Cadang-cadang is a disease caused by Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd, Cocadviroid cadangi), a lethal viroid of several palms including coconut (Cocos nucifera), African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), anahaw (Saribus rotundifolius), and buri (Corypha utan).