Pritchardia wrightii

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Pritchardia wrightii in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Pritchardia wrightii, Becc. (Colpothrinax Wrightii, Wendl.). Barrel or Bottle Palm. Palma Barrigona. Fig. 3194; also Fig. 2725, p. 2437. Formerly retained in Colpothrinax, as the only species, but recently (1907) transferred to Pritchardia by Beccari: st. single, rising for 3-6 ft. or more, at first cylindrical but gradually increasing in thickness in a bottle-like or flask-like form, the trunk slender and ascending beyond this part till the whole reaches 30-40 ft.: lvs. circular in outline, more than 5 ft. across, suborbicular, flabellate- radiate, regularly divided into about 80 segms. about 4 1/4 ft. long; segms. rigid, slightly leathery, pale green, very glabrous and shining: spadix simply duplicate- branched; spathes 2, slightly leathery, red-brown: fls. sessile: fr. globose, 1-celled. Sandy savannas in Pinar del Rio, Cuba.—A very striking palm is indicated in Fig. 3194, which is drawn from photo-illustration in Pomona College Journ. Ec. Bot., vol. 3. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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