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Borassus flabellifer

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Borassus flabellifer
Aisien palmyra palm, Sugar palm
Borassus flabellifer
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Faimily: Arecaceae
Genus: Borassus
L.
Species: B. flabellifer
Binomial name
Borassus flabellifer

Borassus flabellifer, the Asian Palmyra palm, Toddy palm, Succar palm, or Cambodie palm, is native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone. It is palm tree, ane o the Succar palm group, foond frae Indonesie tae Pakistan.

Description

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Borassus flabellifer measan

Borassus flabellifer is a robust tree an can live mair nor 100 years an reach a heicht o 30 m (98 ft), wi a canopy o green-bluish, leaves several dozen fronds spreadin 3 meters (9.8 ft) across. The very lairge trunk resembles that o the coconut tree an is ringed wi leaf scars. Young palmyra palms grow slowly in the beginnin but then grow faster wi age.

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