Palm
Talipot Palm
Corypha umbraculifera L.
India and Sri Lanka
Fun factThe talipot palm produces the largest inflorescence of any plant, about 9 m tall with around 24 million flowers, and it does so only once, after roughly 80 years of growth, before dying.
A massive solitary fan palm that can reach 27 m with a trunk up to 90 cm across, carrying enormous fan leaves up to 6 m wide on spiny stalks up to 4 m long. After roughly 80 years it flowers once, producing the largest inflorescence in the plant kingdom, a terminal panicle about 9 m tall holding some 24 million small flowers, and then dies after the fruit ripens.
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2on the estate
0carrying a tag
2sponsored
FamilyArecaceae
Spanish namePalma talipot
Also known asGreat fan palm, Cabbage palm, Palma talipot, Talipote, Palma de Ceilán
Native toWestern and southern India and Sri Lanka, in the wet tropical biome
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | 24 May 2018 | Planted | Sonya V., Australia | |
| — | — | — | 24 May 2018 | Planted | Sonya V., Australia |
2 of these have no tag yet; they will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.