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Coccothrinax argentata
Also called Biscayne Palm, Silver Palm, Silver Thatch, Silvertop
Coccothrinax argentata, commonly called the Florida silver palm, is a species of palm tree. It is native to south Florida, southeast Mexico, Colombia and to the West Indies, where it is found in the Bahamas, the southwest Caribbean and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its natural habitat is rocky, calcareous soil in coastal scrubland and hammock communities.
Coccothrinax argentata is native to Florida in the southeastern United States, southeast Mexico, Colombia, and parts of the Caribbean, where it is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic), the southwest Caribbean, including the Colombian Caribbean islands, the Honduran Bay Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its natural habitat is rocky, calcareous soil, including coastal scrubland and hammock communities.
Coccothrinax acunana · Coccothrinax alexandri · Silver Thatch Palm · Silver Thatch Palm · Coccothrinax baracoensis · Puerto Rico silver palm · Coccothrinax bermudezii · Coccothrinax borhidiana · Barrera Silver Thatch Palm · Coccothrinax camagueyana · Coccothrinax clarensis · Coccothrinax concolor
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coccothrinax argentata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
