Palms   Salacca sarawakensis

Synonymy: None Common Names: None Habitat: Borneo (Sarawak) lowland rainforest. Description: A medium sized, clumping palm, to about 3-4m tall, with simple, notched leaves. It is dioecious, but male plants are unknown, so are all the existing plants vegetative offspring of a single parent ? This is unlikely, because the species is quite widespread throughout Sarawak. General: A very attractive plant for the tropical/warm sub-tropical garden. Culture: Warm, sheltered and moist.

Figure 1. S. sarawakensis in habitat, Sarawak. (There's no scale here, but this plant was quite large, about 3-4 m tall.)

Figure 2. Close-up of the leaves.

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Mike Gray

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