Cyrtostachys renda Blume
Campus Location
Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad
Systematic position
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Red Sealing Wax Palm or lipstick palm native to Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. It can grow to 16 metres of height with bright red crownshafts and leaf sheaths. The stipe grows up to a diameter of 10 cm; long petioles grow up to 15 cm; pinnate leaves have about 50 pairs of pinnae; ovoid fruits green, turning to a dark bluish-black when ripe.
- Ornamental palm, also used as flooring materials, roof thatching etc.
Cyrtostachys renda Blume
Campus Location
Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad
Systematic position
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Red Sealing Wax Palm or lipstick palm native to Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. It can grow to 16 metres of height with bright red crownshafts and leaf sheaths. The stipe grows up to a diameter of 10 cm; long petioles grow up to 15 cm; pinnate leaves have about 50 pairs of pinnae; ovoid fruits green, turning to a dark bluish-black when ripe.
- Ornamental palm, also used as flooring materials, roof thatching etc.