The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Metroxylon salomonense
Also called Hebe Nut Palm, Ivory Nut Palm
In Singapore: Solomons Sago Palm (Grown in Singapore)
Solomon's Sago Palm is a large, fast-growing tropical palm from the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and nearby islands, grown mainly for its starchy sago and nut-like seeds. It is monocarpic, so it dies after flowering and fruiting, and it needs warm, wet, humid conditions to thrive.
Metroxylon salomonense is a palm (family Arecaceae or Palmae) native to the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Bismarck Archipelago. Common name bia.
It grows to 15 to 20 m in height in just twenty years, with a trunk diameter of 60–80 cm. The pinnate fronds can be over 6 m long, and have leaflets 100–190 cm long by 14–19 cm wide. It is monocarpic, dying after flowering and fruiting. The inflorescence is a panicle up to 9 m in height and half as wide.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Metroxylon salomonense 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.
