Triangle Palm

Description:

It can reach 15 meters in height. The leaves are about 2.5 meters in length, arching almost upright from the trunk and then arching gracefully about a meter from their tip. The leaf bases grow on three distinct sides of the plant, forming a triangle, which gives the palm its common name. Yellow and green flowers branch out from the lower leaves, which later produce round black inedible fruit about 25 mm (1in).

Habitat:

South Madagascar, dry forest

Notes:

The Triangulated palm is very rare, with only about 1000 plants left in the wild. I spotted this one in a transition forest between rainforest and spiny desert in Ihazofotsy parcel of Andohahela N.P.