Corypha utan

Common name: gebanga palm (English)

Family: Arecaceae (Palm)

Distribution: Andaman Is. to Assam and N. Australia

Life form: Tree

Description: This remarkable large palm is found from India to Southeast Asia and Australia. It attains impressive proportions and after perhaps 50 years, flowers, sets fruit and dies. These seedlings are from a specimen at Farichild that flowered in 2015. It grows best in full sun.

1: Plot 156b (156B) • Accession: 951092*C • Origin: Philippines
2: Plot 156c (156C) • Accession: 951092*A • Origin: Philippines
3: Plot 156c (156C) • Accession: 951092*B • Origin: Philippines
4: Plot 85 (85) • Accession: 2016-0888*C
5: Plot 85 (85) • Accession: 2016-0888*B
6: Plot 87a (87A) • Accession: 2002-0488*B • Origin: Indonesia
7: Plot 90a (90A) • Accession: 79248*A • Origin: Philippines
8: Plot 90a (90A) • Accession: 79248*B • Origin: Philippines
9: Plot 91a (91A) • Accession: 2002-0488*A • Origin: Indonesia
10: Plot 91b (91B) • Accession: 2002-0488*E • Origin: Indonesia
11: Plot 92 (92) • Accession: 2002-0488*F • Origin: Indonesia
12: Plot 92 (92) • Accession: 2016-0888*D

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Corypha utan

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