Palms   Syagrus coronata

Synonyms: S. treubiana Cocos coronata Common Names: Licury Palm Ouricury Palm Habitat: Brazil Description: This palm grows to about 10 m tall, with a crown of attractive arching semi-plumose leaves (Figure 2). The leaf bases are persitant, covered in a white indument (Figure 1), and arranged in roughly 5 spiral rows.	Figure 1.
General: Grown as both an ornamental, and for the oil which can be extracted from its seeds, and the wax from its leaves. One of the best Syagrus for the sub-tropics. Culture: Easily grown in a sunny position in the tropics and sub-tropics, even on calcarous soils.

Figure 2. Trunk detail.	Figure 3. Close up of leaf bases.

Figure 4. Leaf detail

Contributed by:	University of Florida-IFAS (Figures 1&2).
	Tony Huntington (Figures 3&4).

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