In Singapore: Singapore Walking-Stick Palm, Kerinting, Rintin (Native to Singapore, Critically Endangered)
Kerinting Palm is a small to medium understory palm from the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, threatened by habitat loss and rarely grown outside its native forests. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions similar to a rainforest floor.
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce slightly in cooler months.
Soil
Rich, well-draining peaty or loamy mix with organic matter.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Pen. Malaysia
Climate
wet tropical
About
Rhopaloblaste singaporensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is found in Malaysia and Singapore. It is threatened by habitat loss.
[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 Rhopaloblaste singaporensis 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.