The Foxtail Palm - Wodyetia - Red Palm Fruits Maui Hawaii
by Sharon Mau
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The Foxtail Palm - Wodyetia - Red Palm Fruits Maui Hawaii
Artist
Sharon Mau
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Photograph - Photography
Description
The Foxtail Palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family. The Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia (PACSOA) describes this Palm as follows: "Very attractive palm with long (2-3m.) plumose leaves (hence the name 'Foxtail'), and up to 10m tall with a grey trunk. It produces large (about the size of a duck egg) orange fruit
Most of the world was unaware of the existence of this 'spectacular' palm until 1978, when an Aboriginal man brought it to botanists and the world's attention.
The Aboriginal name of that Aboriginal man has been recorded as being "Wodyeti", thus the genus name for this Australian endemic species Wodyetia. The specific name "bifurcata" is from Latin meaning 'twice divided' in reference to its leaves.
The Foxtail Palm is endemic to a very small part of Australia
This species is endemic to the Cape Melville range, within the Cape Melville National Park in Queensland Australia. It was described in 1978, and was classed as a rare palm, both within Queensland, and on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species.
After it became known to the world, the Foxtail Palm's seeds were so highly sought after that a thriving black market trade formed, with illegal collectors nearly decimating the in situ populations. The species propagates readily in cultivation and this ultimately reduced the pressure on the wild population. It has become widely distributed across the world, being progressively planted out as one of the "world's most popular" palms.
A cluster of brilliantly coloured red palm fruits . .
Maui Hawaii
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July 8th, 2014
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