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Pinanga cattienensis

Pinanga cattienensis
Photo: Roy Bateman, CC BY-SA 4.0

Pinanga cattienensis is a small understory palm endemic to southern Vietnam, known from seasonally flooded lowland tropical forest in Cat Tien National Park. It is a rare wild species with little cultivation information, so its care needs are inferred from related Pinanga palms.

Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Palm
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, tolerating seasonal flooding in the wild.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, well-drained but moisture-retentive mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Vietnam
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pinanga cattienensis is a species of small palm in the family Arecaceae. It is endemic to Vietnam, having been found in Cat Tien National Park in Đồng Nai Province, growing in seasonally-flooded tropical forest at low elevations.

Other Pinanga plants

Pinanga andamanensis · Pinanga crassipes · Pinanga disticha · Pinanga purpurea · Pinanga sylvestris · Pinanga tashiroi · Pinanga

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pinanga cattienensis 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.

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