Talipot palm
Corypha umbraculifera
''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.
The talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, 6-8 m long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk that forms at the top of the trunk . The talipot palm is monocarpic, flowering only once, when it is 30 to 80 years old. It takes about a year for the fruit to mature, producing thousands of round, yellow-green fruit 3-4 cm in diameter, each containing a single seed. The plant dies after fruiting.
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.
The talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, 6-8 m long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk that forms at the top of the trunk . The talipot palm is monocarpic, flowering only once, when it is 30 to 80 years old. It takes about a year for the fruit to mature, producing thousands of round, yellow-green fruit 3-4 cm in diameter, each containing a single seed. The plant dies after fruiting.