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Corypha utan
These palms (like all Corypha) only flower towards the end of their lifetime, but when they do flower they send up a massive inflorescence up to 5m high, and with up to 1 million flowers Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Subfamily: Coryphoideae Tribe: Corypheae Genus: Corypha Species: C. utan
Spotted on Sep 4, 2010
Submitted on May 14, 2013
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Please use a common name in the common name space (perhaps Gebang Palm or Cabbage Palm) because there is already a dedicated space for scientific name.