Salacca sarawakensis

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Figure 1. S. sarawakensis in habitat, Sarawak. This plant was quite large, about 3-4 m tall.

Habitat:

Borneo (Sarawak) lowland rainforest.

Description:

A medium sized, clumping palm, to about 3-4m tall, with simple, notched leaves. It is dioecious, but male plants are unknown, so are all the existing plants vegetative offspring of a single parent ? This is unlikely, because the species is quite widespread throughout Sarawak.

General:

A very attractive plant for the tropical/warm sub-tropical garden.

Culture:

Warm, sheltered and moist.

Figure 2. Close-up of the leaves.

Contributed by:

Mike Gray

External Links:

Kew, PalmWeb, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk