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Orania sylvicola
Also called Ibul Palm
In Singapore: Ibul (Native to Singapore, Critically Endangered)
Orania sylvicola is a tropical forest palm from Southeast Asia, grown mainly as a specimen in warm, humid gardens. It needs warmth, humidity and steady moisture, and is rarely grown as a houseplant.
Orania sylvicola is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to peninsular Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java.
[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 Orania sylvicola 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.
