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Fishtail palms
Caryota
Caryota is a genus of palm trees. They are often known as fishtail palms because of the shape of their leaves. There are about 13 species native to Asia (China, India, Indonesia, etc.), northern Australia, and the South Pacific. One of the more widely known species is Caryota urens, the flowers of which are used to make one type of jaggery (an unrefined sugar), and also to make palm wine. Caryota mitis is native to Indochina,...
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Burmese Fishtail-palm
speciesCaryota mitis
Jaggery palm
speciesCaryota urens
Caryota maxima
speciesCaryota maxima
Giant fishtail palm
speciesCaryota obtusa
Giant Fishtail Palm
speciesCaryota no
Caryota monostachya
speciesCaryota monostachya
Albert palm
speciesCaryota rumphiana
Caryota alberti
speciesCaryota alberti
Caryota ophiopellis
speciesCaryota ophiopellis
Caryota sympetala
speciesCaryota sympetala
Caryota cumingii
speciesCaryota cumingii
Caryota zebrina
speciesCaryota zebrina
Caryota kiriwongensis
speciesCaryota kiriwongensis
Caryota angustifolia
speciesCaryota angustifolia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 142331.