Common name: Sealing Wax Palm, Lipstick palm, Red Sealing Wax Palm, Malaya sealing wax palm, Rajah wax palm
Botanical name: Cyrtostachys renda Family: Arecaceae (Palm family) Synonyms: Cyrtostachys lakka
Sealing Wax Palm is probably the most beautiful of all palms. Adorned with
pretty looking leaves, it develops a brilliantly red trunk. Palm is
originally from Malaysia, and is cultivated throughout the tropical world.
Leaves are feather-like, pinnate with very narrow and long leaflets. The
leaf-stalks are of a bright scarlet red, the colour of red sealing wax,
which is where the palm gets its common name. Sealing Wax Palm has a
clustering habit.
Identification credit: Aarti Khale
| Photographed at Kochi Airport, Kerala. |
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