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Ceroxylon parvifrons is a tall, solitary wax palm from the Andes of western South America, grown mainly in wet tropical highland conditions. Its key to growing is cool, humid, bright conditions, which are hard to match outside its native range.
Ceroxylon parvifrons, also known as the Golden wax palm, is a species of Ceroxylon from Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ceroxylon parvifrons 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.
