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Phoenix loureiroi
Also called Loureiro's Palm, Spiny Date Palm
Phoenix loureiroi, Loureiro's date palm, is a small clustering palm from southern Asia, with trunks 1 to 4 m tall often covered in old leaf bases. It is grown mainly as an ornamental in warm, frost-free gardens and is easier to find in botanic gardens than in nurseries.
Phoenix loureiroi (commonly known as the mountain date palm, vuyavuy palm, or voyavoy palm,) is a species of flowering plant in the palm family, indigenous to southern Asia, from the Philippines, Taiwan, India, southern Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Pakistan, and China. It occurs in deciduous and evergreen forests and in clear terrain from sea level to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) altitude.
Phoenix loureiroi is named after João de Loureiro; it was originally written by Kunth as "loureirii", but this is error be corrected to loureiroi under the provisions of the ICBN.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phoenix loureiroi 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.
