Borassus flabellifer Aisien palmyra palm, Sugar palm | |
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Borassus flabellifer | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Monocots |
(unranked): | Commelinids |
Order: | Arecales |
Faimily: | Arecaceae |
Genus: | Borassus L. |
Species: | B. flabellifer |
Binomial name | |
Borassus flabellifer ...
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Borassus flabellifer, the Asian Palmyra palm, Toddy palm, Succar palm, or Cambodie palm, is native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone. It is palm tree, ane o the Succar palm group, foond frae Indonesie tae Pakistan.
Borassus flabellifer is a robust tree an can live mair nor 100 years an reach a heicht o 30 m (98 ft), wi a canopy o green-bluish, leaves several dozen fronds spreadin 3 meters (9.8 ft) across. The very lairge trunk resembles that o the coconut tree an is ringed wi leaf scars. Young palmyra palms grow slowly in the beginnin but then grow faster wi age.