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Formosan Sugar Palm

Arenga engleri

Also called Arenga Palm

Formosan Sugar Palm
Photo: Tangopaso, Public domain
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Palm
Native range
Nansei-shotō to Taiwan
Climate
subtropical

About

Arenga engleri, or the Formosa palm, Taiwan sugar palm, dwarf sugar palm, or Taiwan arenga palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. The plant rarely grows more than 10 ft. tall, with a stem diameter of 6in. and a spread of 16 ft. The palm is native to Taiwan as well as Japan's Ryukyu Islands. The fruit of the palm is known to cause a severe allergic reaction.

Other Arenga plants

Arenga palm · Arenga hookeriana · Lister's palm · Tibetan sugar palm · Arenga microcarpa · Lang Kap · Sugar palm · Arenga westerhoutii · Wight’s sago palm · Arenga palm

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arenga engleri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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