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Calamus erectus
Calamus erectus is a clustering, non-climbing rattan palm from Nepal, Bhutan, NE India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Yunnan, usually seen as a shrub up to about 3 m tall. It is grown in warm, humid, frost-free conditions with partial shade and steady moisture, and the sources describe it mainly as a wild forest palm.
Calamus erectus, also known as viagra palm and locally as tynriew, tara, and zhi li sheng teng, is a flowering shrub in the family Arecaceae. The specific epithet (erectus) refers to the plant's habit of growing straight rather than creeping or climbing like many species of the genus Calamus.
Calamus erectus is native to Northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and the Chinese province of Yunnan. It has been introduced to the United States.
Although the canes are not useful for making furniture due to the short internodes, the Mising people of the Assam plains sometimes use the canes and leaves to make huts and chicken coops.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calamus erectus 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.
