Common Names:
Ghost Palm,
Moretillo Palm
Distribution & Habitat:
Quite widely distributed in South America,
from the lowlands of the Amazon River,
up to the cool Guyana Highlands at 1400m.
Description:
A very striking palm, featuring multiple spiny trunks to about 15m,
with large, deeply segmented palmate leaves which can have up to 120 segments,
and a silvery undersurface.
Culture:
The main requirement is water, and lots of it.
It also likes full sun, and warmth in winter.
Once they get established, however,
they do appear to be very vigorous growers.
Figure 2. M. armata
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Figure 1. M. armata
in habitat, Kaieteur Falls, Guyana.
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Figure 3. M. armata
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Figure 4. Looking up into a very nice M. armata
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Figure 5. M. armata
trunks.
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Figure 6. M. armata
trunk detail.
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| Contributed by:
| Brandt Maxwell (Figure 1)
| | Geoff (Figure 2&3)
| | Brod (Figure 4,5&6)
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