Cuban Royal Palm

Description:

Photo take in a jungle path next to a park This are beautiful pamls use for decoration can grow up to 20 to 30 mt high. The trunk is stout, very smooth and grey-white in colour with a characteristic bulge below a distinctive green crown shaft. Trees have about 15 leaves which can be up to 4 m long. They are green when immature, turning red and eventually purplish-black as they mature.

Habitat:

Native of Mexico, Cuba, Florida and some of the Caribbean islands, Found today worldwide in tropical and subtropical areas because it use in decoration.

Notes:

Is also used as a source of thatch, construction timber, and as a medicinal plant.