Pinanga

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Pinanga in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Pinanga (Malay name). Palmaceae, tribe Areceae. Slender spineless bamboo-like palms from India and the Malay Archipelago. Stems erect: lvs. terminal, unequally lobed or pin- natisect, or simple and bifid at the apex; segms. plicate, many-nerved, the lower ones acuminate, the upper confluent, the margins not thickened, recurving at the base; rachis acute above, convex below: petiole convex above; sheath elongated: spadix usually small, very simple: peduncle short: branches in groups; spathe 1, symmetrical, swollen or compressed and 2-winged: fls. rather small, the staminate one on each side of a pistillate, thus differing from Areca in which the pistillate fls. are solitary: fr. ovoid or elliptical, orange or red, with a membranous husk.—About 40-50 species. For cult., see Palms. P. maculata, Porte. A dwarf slender palm with apparently permanently variegated lvs. : lvs. elliptic, bind nearly to the middle: spadix below the lvs., recurved: us. showy, scarlet. Philippine Isls. B.M. 8011. Not in cult, in Amer.—P. malaiana, Scheff. St. slender, 8-12 ft. high: lvs. 5-8 ft. long; lfts. numerous, linear acuminate: spadix 6 in long, blood-red in fr.: 1-1 1/2 in.long, blackish purple. Malaya.-P. Micholitxii, Hort. sander is a plant exhibited at ghent in 1908, from sumatra. G.C. III.43:259. P. ternatensis, Scheff. (Areca gigantea, Hort.) Lvs. 12 ft. long, with 30 - 40 lanceolate segms.. the largest 3 ft. long: branches of spadix spirally disposed. Ternate Isl. N. TAYLOR. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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