Ravenea rivularis
COMMON NAME | Majestic palm or majesty palm |
TYPE | Palm |
FAMILY | Arecaceae |
NOTES | Solitary,
tapering, pale gray stems to 80 ft tall and up to 1.5 ft in diameter, bulging
at the base. The palm has upward-arching leaves divided into long, thin
fingers. |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION | Southwest Madagascar |
NATIVE
HABITAT | Usually
found on river-banks in lowland forest, but also grows in shallow and slow
moving water and along streams in deep canyons and in swamp forest with
flowing water at elevations from 450 to 2800 ft above sea level. |
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