Thursday, January 28, 2010

Red palm


Red palm, Lipstick palm, Rajah palm
Cyrtostachys renda
Palmae


Clustering palm that grows to about 7 m tall. The leaf base and stem are bright red and showy. The fruits are about 18 mm long and black when ripe. A native of the Malay Peninsula, it was introduced in the Philippines probably after the Second World War, and is now widely cultivated in gardens.

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