Copernicia baileyana

Copernicia baileyana

Copernicia baileyana is an endemic palm species in Cuba. The Style epithet honors the Palm researchers Liberty Hyde Bailey.

Features

The stem is up to 18 m high, in culture rarely more than 12 m. The diameter is about 60 cm. The trunk is usually the same thickness of about 30 cm height, rarely he has in the center a swelling. The trunk is smooth and light gray to pure white. Below the crown hanging a few dead leaves. The leaf crown is roundish and 4.5 to 6 m high as wide. The fan-shaped leaves are 1.5 m wide and almost circular. You have a lot of stiff, narrow lanceolate segments, which are cut to one-third of the blade diameter. The petiole is 1.2 m long and extends into the leaf blade, which are characterized costapalmat. The leaf blade is light to dark green on the upper surface on the underside lighter gray-green and covered with a layer of wax.

The inflorescence is highly branched and about 2 m long. He bends from the center of the leaf crown down. The flowers are whitish. The fruits are round, brown to black, and less than 2.5 cm in diameter.

Dissemination

The species grows in Cuba in the savannas and open woodlands.

Documents

• Robert Lee Riffle, Paul Craft: An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms, 4th edition, Timber Press, Portland, 2007, ISBN 978-0-88192-558-6, p 312