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Barrigona Palm
Colpothrinax wrightii
Colpothrinax wrightii, the palma barrigona, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.
It is endemic to Cuba.
From the article Colpothrinax wrightii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The trunk grows between 6 and 15 m (20 and 49 ft) tall, with a swollen midsection reaching up to 50 cm (20 in) in diameter. Young trunks are covered in fibrous leaf sheaths, while mature trunks are smooth and bare. The crown holds 10 to 20 large, fan-shaped leaves with petioles around 1 to 1.5 m (3.3 to 4.9 ft) long. The inflorescence extends up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft), with creamy yellow branches that turn orange as the fruit develops. Flowers are small, yellow, and arranged in clusters. The fruit is round, 1.1 to 1.6 cm (0.4 to 0.6 in) in diameter, containing a single seed about 1 cm (0.4 in) across.
== References ==
Where it lives
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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 365050.