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Calamus wailong
Calamus wailong is a climbing rattan palm (a liana) from subtropical and tropical forests of northeast India, Bangladesh, Indochina and southern China, and it is threatened by habitat loss. It is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, and the care guidance below is general knowledge for rattan palms rather than specific to this species.
Calamus inermis (synonym C. wailong) is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a liana native to Indochina (Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), Yunnan and Hainan in China, northeastern India, and Bangladesh. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonal forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The species was first described by Thomas Anderson in 1869.
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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.
