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Lo'ulu

Pritchardia lanigera

Also called Loulu

Lo'ulu
Photo: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA, CC BY 2.0
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Hawaiian Is. (Hawaiʻi)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pritchardia lanigera, the lo'ulu, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae that is endemic to the island of Hawaiʻi. It inhabits ridges, gulch sides, and gentle slopes in wet forests from sea level to 3,000 ft (910 m).P. lanigera reaches a height of 5 m (16 ft) and a trunk diameter of 30–50 cm (12–20 in).

It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Pritchardia plants

Hawai'i pritchardia · Nihoa Fan Palm · Kilauea pritchardia · Mt. Eke pritchardia · Loulu · Makaleha pritchardia · Waianae Range pritchardia · Lanai pritchardia · Limahuli Valley pritchardia · Molokai pritchardia · Alakai Swamp pritchardia · Pritchardia mitiaroana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pritchardia lanigera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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