Ptychosperma caryotoides
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Figure 2. P. caryotoides infructescence.
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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 1. P. caryotoides in East Sepik, PNG.
Figure 3. P. caryotoides - close-up of the leaflets.
Contributed by:
Rolf Kyburz,
(Figure 1,2&3)
