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Verschaffeltia (Ambroise Verschaffelt, 1825-1886, distinguished Belgian horticulturist; founded L' Illustration Horticole at Ghent in 1854 and introduced many choice plants, particularly palms and other foliage plants). Palmaceae, tribe Areceae. A tall palm, spinose throughout or at length spineless.
Trunks slender, ringed, arising from above-ground roots: lvs. terminal, recurved; blade oblong or cuneate-obovate, bifid, plicate-nerved, usually laciniate nearly to the rachis: segms. incised; midrib and nerves strong, scaly; petiole half-cylindrical; sheath long, scaly, deeply split: spadix 3-6 ft. long, paniculately branched, long-peduncled, recurved, scaly, its rachis long, and branches and branchlets spreading, slender: spathes 2 or 3, long, sheathing, the lower persistent, the upper deciduous: fls. very small: fr. globose, smooth, 1 in. long. — A genus of only 1 species from the Seychelles. Cult. as in Latania.
V. melanochaetes, H. Wendl.-Roscheria.
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==Cultivation==
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===Propagation===
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===Pests and diseases===
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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