Black wanga palm

Description

These�dioecious�palms have green, solitary trunks with widely spaced�leaf�scar rings. The trunks grow to 45�cm in diameter and 35 m in height; the leaf crown is hemispherical, or nearly so, with 6 m�pinnate�leaves on robust, 2 m�petioles. Petioles are armed with 6�cm spines, gold or gray in color.�Inflorescences�emerge from within the leaf crown, to 2 m in length, and resemble those in�Mauritia. The�fruit�ripens to a yellow-orange�drupe, covered in scales and containing one�seed