Palms   Coccothrinax miraguama

Synonymy: C. acuminata Common Names: Miraguama Palm Habitat: Hills and savannah around Cuba. Description: A medium sized fan palm, to about 5 metres high. Smallish, rigid fan leaves, dark green above, grayish underneath. The trunk is covered in a hessian like fibrous sheath. General: A very attractive plant, although not as popular as it should be due to its slow rate of growth. Culture: Full sun to light shade, in well drained sandy soil

Figure 1. A nice group of C. miraguama

Figure 2. P. miraguama var roseocarpa

Contributed by:	University of Florida-IFAS (Figure 1)
	Christian Faulkner, Faulkners Palms (Figure 2)

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