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Life Form
Family
Ornamental - It is grown for its attractive light green fronds. Plants is said to clean the air, filtering and purifying stagnant air.
Central America
It is the understory of moist, wet, or mixed forests in lowlands and mountain forests.
An air-purifying and pet-friendly indoor plant. Was once a Victorian symbol of wealth.
It is a small, compact, usually single-trunked palm grow up to 1.5-1.8m tall.
It has a slender green, flexible, tubular, spine-free stems with generally pinnate foliage.
The crown bears 3-10 long pinnate leaves, with the number increasing as the plant matures.
Small, light yellow, yellow, or orange-red odorous flowers appear on irregularly branched petioles that grow below or among the leaf.
Pea-sized berries develop after flowering.
Flowering: April – September
Fruiting: June – October