Manicaria

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

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Read about Manicaria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Manicaria (name derived from the word for glove, because of the spathe). Palmaceae. Two or 3 species, or perhaps only 1, in Trop. S. Amer., little cult., allied to Geonoma. They are robust unarmed palms with more or less pinnatisect or entire lvs.: fls. large, rose-ochroleucous, heavy-scented, on many branching tomentose spadices: fr. very large. M. saccifera, Gaertn., has lvs. simple or split with age, dentate, 30 ft. long and 4-5 ft. broad, transversely furrowed, crowning an erect deeply ringed trunk: fls. of both sexes on the same spadix, the latter 3-4 ft. long: fr. 3-lobed. Lower Amazon and elsewhere. A striking palm with its immense simple lvs. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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