Burretiokentia hapala

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Figure 5. B. hapala in habitat, New Caledonia.

Habitat:

New Caledonian rainforest on a variety of soils.

Description:

An emergent palm to 15 m tall, a prominently ringed, glossy green trunk to 15 cm diameter. It has a neat crown of glossy green, pinnate leaves, to about 2.4 m long.

Culture:

This palm has proved rather easy to grow in South Queensland, much more so than its sibling B. viellardii. As a seedling it requires shade and ample amounts of water, but it can quickly adapt to full sun position. It is also rather cold tolerant.

Figure 2. Plant in habitat, New Caledonia

Figure 3. Close-up of the crown shaft.

Figure 4. Attractive trunk on B. hapala.

Figure 6. The beautiful inflorescence.

Figure 1. Burretiokentia hapala inflorescence

Contributed by:

Rolf Kyburz, (Figures 1,2&3)
John Lyle (Figures 4-6)

External Links:

Kew, PalmWeb, eMonocot, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk