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Landscape plant ID 011
MDC palms common names and key words
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
03/01/2022

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Bismarck palm
Definition
massive fan palm with bluish fronds
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coconut palm
Definition
tall feather palm with no crownshaft and leaflets on a single plane
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Chinese fan palm
Definition
medium large fan palm with thorns on petioles, petioles not split, and bluish olive-shaped fruits
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Sylvester palm
Definition
single trunk feather palm with sharp thorns and the petiole bases decorative
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sabal palm
Definition
medium large fan palm with no thorns on petioles, petioles split, and dark spherical fruits
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Christmas palm
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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Canary Island date palm
Definition
huge feather palm with spines and, no crownshaft, and very wide petiole bases
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royal palm
Definition
huge pinnate palm with crownshaft and leaflets somewhat plumose
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queen palm
Definition
large pinnate palm with no crownshaft and leaflets somewhat plumose
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foxtail palm
Definition
medium to large feather palm with crownshaft and very plumose fronds
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paurotis palm
Definition
clumping fan palm with thorns on petioles
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fishtail palm
Definition
bipinnate palm
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cat palm
Definition
dense short pinnate palm < 2 m tall
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silver thatch palm
Definition
fan palm with silver undersides
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triangle palm
Definition
pinnate palm with triangular crown
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areca palm
Definition
clumping feather palm with crownshafts
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bottle palm
Definition
bulbose base feather palm
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Senegal date palm
Definition
feather palm with spines on petioles, > 5 m tall, leaflets > 2 cm wide
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pygmy date palm
Definition
feather palm with spines on petioles, < 5 m tall, leaflets < 2 cm wide
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solitaire palm
Definition
feather palm with crownshaft, leaf tips clipped, fronds arch mostly up and across, fruit pea-sized
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saw palmetto
Definition
creeping, clumping fan palm with spines on petioles
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Florida thatch palm
Definition
fan palm with wide leaflets and prominent hastula
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Montgomery palm
Definition
feather palm with white crownshaft
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Washingtonia palm
Definition
very tall fan palm with shiny fronds and spines on petioles
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