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Coccothrinax boschiana
Also called Barreras Silver Palm
Barrera Silver Thatch Palm is a slow-growing fan palm from dry limestone forests of the Dominican Republic, with silvery undersides to its leaves and trunks reaching about 12 metres. It is rarely grown outside its native range and needs warm, dry conditions with good drainage.
Coccothrinax boschiana (guano de Barreras) is a palm endemic to dry forests on limestone on the Sierra Martín García ridge and Sierra de Neiba on the Barahona Peninsula in the south of the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. This species was first described in 1997.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coccothrinax boschiana 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.
