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Areca ipot
In Singapore: Ipot Palm, Bungang-ipot, Ipod, Ipot, Mangipod, Saksik, Saksig (Cultivated in Singapore)
Areca ipot is a slender palm native to the Philippines, threatened by habitat loss and rarely grown outside its range. Grow it as a warm, humid, bright-light palm kept evenly moist, much like other Areca palms.
Areca ipot, the Ipot palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Betel palm · Areca gurita · Red Crownshaft Palm · Areca palm
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Areca ipot by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
