Ceroxylon
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Ceroxylon (Greek, wax and wood, i.e., wax-tree). Palmaceae. Wax-palm. Tall palms with ringed stems and pinnate leaves. Spineless, the trunk covered with wax: lvs. clustered at the top, 15-20 ft. long when full grown, equally pinnate; pinnae long, rigid, sword-shaped, bases recurved and tips pointed, dark green above and glaucous beneath, the petiole very short and sheathed: fls. mostly unisexual, on spikes nearly or quite covered by the simple spathe; fl.-parts 3; stamens 9-15: seed as large as a hazel-nut, round, bony, inclosed in a soft or crumbling integument.—Perhaps 4 or 5 species in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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