Talipot palm, Kandy Botanical Garden, Sri Lanka

''Corypha umbraculifera'', the talipot palm, is a species of palm native to eastern and southern India and Sri Lanka. It is also reportedly naturalized in Cambodia, Myanmar , Thailand and the Andaman Islands.

It is one of the largest palms in the world; individual specimens have reached heights of up to 25 m with stems up to 1.3 m in diameter....hieroglyph snipped... It is a fan palm , with large, palmate leaves up to 5 m in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m , and up to 130 leaflets... more