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Calamus rudentum is a climbing rattan palm, a liana native to Thailand and Indo-China, that uses spiny whip-like flagella to scramble up trees. It is grown mainly in its native wet tropical forest and is not a common ornamental, so care details are largely general knowledge for rattans.
Calamus rudentum is a liana in the palm family Arecaceae native to Thailand. It is a rattan with a very long inflorescence, up to 14 m (46 ft) long, of which the three-quarters proximal to the stem is the inflorescence sensu stricto with 100,000 flowers, while the distal quarter is a flagellum (a spiny pseudo-tendril which aids the vine in climbing).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calamus rudentum 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.
