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Chamaedorea costaricana
Also called Costa Rican Bamboo Palm
Chamaedorea costaricana, the Costa Rican bamboo palm, is a clumping understory palm of humid Central American forests that forms colonies of slender, cane-like stems. It grows best in filtered light or part shade with steady moisture and humidity.
Chamaedorea costaricana is a species of palm in the genus Chamaedorea, found in Central America. A common local name in Costa Rica is pacaya, though this is also used as a name for Chamaedorea tepejilote.
It is found throughout Mexico and Central America, in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chamaedorea costaricana 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.
