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Calamus caryotoides
Also called Fishtail Lawyer Vine
A climbing palm from the rainforests of northeast Queensland, grown mainly as a wild climber rather than a garden plant. It climbs by barbed tendrils and has a fishtail-shaped leaflet tip, and needs a shaded, humid, frost-free spot.
Calamus caryotoides, commonly known as fish-tail lawyer cane, is a climbing palm native to Queensland, Australia. Its habitat is rainforest and monsoon forest.
The fish-tail lawyer cane is found from near the top of Cape York Peninsula, southwards along the coastal regions to about Mount Elliott near Townsville. It grows in rainforest, gallery forest, and drier forest types, at altitudes from near sea level to about 1,500 m (4,900 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calamus caryotoides 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.
