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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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Species
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ROYSTONEA OLERACEA (Jacq.) Cook
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28:554. 1901.
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Synonym
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Areca oleracea Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 1:278, t. I70. 1763. Oreodoxa oleracea Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3:166, tt. I56, I63. 1837. Gorgasia oleracea Cook, in Nat. Hort. Mag. 18:114. 1939. Gorgasia maxima Cook, loc. cit. 1939.
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Description
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To 40 m. and perhaps somewhat more in native forests, prominently bulged at base, usually more or less bulged also at the middle or above but in age becoming more uniform: leaves 3-7 m. long, 2 m. broad at middle, with 100 or more closely placed pinnae as much as 5 cm. broad, leaves with a flat look due to the simple arrangement of parts: spadix branches undulate or waved, at least when in cymba and after release: fruit oblong and usually somewhat curved, 15-20 mm. long, 9-10 mm. thick, purplish to black: note contrasts in key.
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Distribution
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Farther West Indies islands, as on Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, Martinique.
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Habit
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tree
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Common
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Caribbee Royal Palm
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