Dictyosperma album

Botanical Description

Hurricane Palm is a single-stemmed, slender, evergreen feather palm that can grow up to 20 metres tall (10 metres in cultivation). The unbranched stem can be up to 16cm in diameter with a swollen base; it is topped by a crown of 10 - 20 leaves that can each be up to 3 metres long[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 314 Title Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia. Publication Author Website http://www.pacsoa.org.au/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Contains at least a little information on the majority of palm and cycad species, plus a wealth of photographs. A first class website. ]. The apical bud of this palm is a highly prized food and has been commonly harvested from the wild in the past. However, there are now very few plants left in the wild and so the supply of apical buds is provided through cultivation[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 605 Title Flore de L'Ile de la Reunion Publication Author E. Jacob De Cordemoy Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Librairie Medicale & Scientifique; Paris. Year 1895 ISBN Description Not really a flora, more a list of the plants known at that time. It often includes a brief description of habit and habitat, plus the local uses of the plants. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. A very attractive palm, it is widely grown as an ornamental in the tropics and subtropics[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. There are three forms of this species and, due to over-exploitation, all are very rare in the wild. They have not as yet (2013) been assessed on the IUCN Red List, but all three meet the criteria of 'Critically Endangered' in the wild[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].