Zalacca

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Zalacca in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Zalacca (said to be the name of the genus in the Moluccas). Palmaceae. Stemless palms with creeping roots, adapted to the warmhouse. Lvs. elongated, equally pinnatisect; segms. alternate, fascicled or equidistant, lanceolate or oblanceolate, straight or falcate, acuminate; rachis obtusely 3-angled, not produced into a spine; petioles rather terete, usually with spirally disposed prickles; sheaths strongly armed with compressed prickles; ligule none: spathes persistent, the lower ones sheathing the peduncle and branches, incomplete, the partial ones subtending the floriferous branchlets; spadices simple or fastigiately branched, pendulous, floriferous branchlets catkin-like, rather short, remote or clustered, sessile or pendulous: fls. polygamous-dioecious, usually rose-colored: fr. globose, turbinate or ovoid, 1-3-seeded, usually beaked.—About 14 species, Assam and Malay. Two forms have been sometimes cult. Z. edulis, Blume (Z. Blumeana, Mart.). Lvs. copious, clustered, erect, clothed with long, often serrate prickles; pinnae linear-lanceolate, very long-acuminate, 1 1/2 – 2 1/4 ft. long, 1 1/2 - 2 in. broad, whitish beneath; petiole rather shorter than the rachis and armed with robust prickles: spadices drooping, long-branched: fr. fulvous-fuscescent, pyriform, 2 1/2 in. long. Malay Archipelago. Var. Wallichiana, Mart. (Z. Wallichiana, Mart.), has lvs. 18-20 ft. long, clustered, nearly erect; pinnae fascicled in 2's, 3's, or 4's, narrow-lanceolate, with a long and slender, cuspidate point, attenuated and reduplicate at base, flat, older ones 1 1/2 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad; petiole 4-6 ft. long, armed with robust, fuscous prickles: fr. ovate-pyriform, 1 1/2 ft. long. India, Burma, and Malaya. G.C. 1873:1083. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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