Large Plants

From: Dewey Fisk <plantnut at shadow.net> on 1997.09.09 at 20:33:36(1198) I think what everyone is refering to is the Talipot Palm... (Corypha umbraculifera). Exotica says "The Talipot palm: slow-growing to 100 ft. high, with straight trunk and a great crown of fan-shaped, plaited bright green leaves (each) about 12 ft. wide, on spiny stalks; pyrmidal terminal inflorescence of creamy-white flowers and small olive-colored fruit; after fruiting the tree will die" Fairchild had one fruit a few years ago that was bout 75 years old. It produced many seed and when the trunk fell, it is said, that you could hear it for a few miles.. Now, the inflorescence of the Talipot is the largest inflorescence.... But who cares about palms.... Dewey +More Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE

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