Basselinia favieri

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Figure 1. Young plant.

Habitat:

Very wet forest on the east side of Mt. Panie, north-east New Caledonia.

Description:

Medium sized emergant palm, to about 12m.

Culture:

Apparantly the easiest of the solitary Basselinia to grow.

Figure 2. B. favieri in habitat, New Caledonia.

Figure 3. Infructescence of B. favieri.

Contributed by:

Rolf Kyburz,
John Lyle (Figures 2-3)

External Links:

Kew, PalmWeb, IUCN, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk