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Landscape plant ID 010
MDC palms scientific names and key words
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
03/01/2022

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Bismarckia nobilis
Definition
massive fan palm with bluish fronds
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Cocos nucifera
Definition
tall feather palm with no crownshaft and leaflets on a single plane
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Livistona chinensis (Category II invasive)
Definition
medium large fan palm with thorns on petioles, petioles not split, and bluish olive-shaped fruits
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Phoenix sylvestris
Definition
single trunk feather palm with sharp thorns and the petiole bases decorative
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Sabal palmetto
Definition
medium large fan palm with no thorns on petioles, petioles split, and dark spherical fruits
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Adonidia merrillii
Definition
feather palm with crownshaft, leaf tips pointed, fronds in a full arch up and down, fruit bigger than an olive
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Phoenix canariensis
Definition
huge feather palm with spines and, no crownshaft, and very wide petiole bases
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Roystonea regia
Definition
huge pinnate palm with crownshaft and leaflets somewhat plumose
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Syagrus romanzoffiana
Definition
large pinnate palm with no crownshaft and leaflets somewhat plumose
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Wodyetia bifurcata
Definition
medium to large feather palm with crownshaft and very plumose fronds
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Acoelorraphe wrightii
Definition
clumping fan palm with thorns on petioles
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Caryota mitis
Definition
bipinnate palm
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Chamaedorea cataractarum
Definition
dense short pinnate palm < 2 m tall
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Coccothrinax argentata
Definition
fan palm with silver undersides
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Dypsis decaryi
Definition
pinnate palm with triangular crown
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Dypsis lutescens
Definition
clumping feather palm with crownshafts
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Hyophorbe lagenicaulis
Definition
bulbose base feather palm
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Phoenix reclinata
Definition
feather palm with spines on petioles, > 5 m tall, leaflets > 2 cm wide
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Phoenix roebelenii
Definition
feather palm with spines on petioles, < 5 m tall, leaflets < 2 cm wide
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Ptychosperma elegans
Definition
feather palm with crownshaft, leaf tips clipped, fronds arch mostly up and across, fruit pea-sized
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Serenoa repens
Definition
creeping, clumping fan palm with spines on petioles
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Thrinax radiata
Definition
fan palm with wide leaflets and prominent hastula
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Veitchia arecina
Definition
feather palm with white crownshaft
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Washingtonia robusta
Definition
very tall fan palm with shiny fronds and spines on petioles
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