Palms   Ptychosperma caryotoides

Habitat: Central highlands of New Guinea. Description: Small, (to 9m) single stemmed palm, with a whitish crownshaft, and wedge-shaped leaftlets on arching leaves. General: Very variable in size. Some plants have been known to fruit at only 1m high. Culture: An attractive plant and fairly easy to grow, although apparantly rare in cultivation. Figure 2. P. caryotoides infructescence.

Figure 1. P. caryotoides in East Sepik, PNG.

Figure 3. P. caryotoides - close-up of the leaflets.

Contributed by:

Rolf Kyburz, K-Palms (Figure 1,2&3)

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