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Calamus manan
Also called Manan Rattan Palm
Calamus manan, the manau rattan, is a large climbing palm native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo, grown mainly for its long, strong canes used in furniture. It is a vine that needs a tall support to climb and is rarely grown outside its native tropical forests.
Calamus manan, the manau rattan or rotan manau, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae, native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. A vine, its single stem is widely harvested from the wild for cane furniture-making, leading to an unsustainable population decline. One unbranched stem at Buitenzorg (now Bogor Botanical Gardens), was carefully measured to a length of 240 metres (787 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calamus manan 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.
