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Foxtail Palm<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wodyetia bifurcata also known as the foxtail palm tree is native to Australia from an area called “Cape Melville”. In its natural habitat it grows in stony, sandy and wooded areas, a protected park in the Cabo Melville National Park grows richness of its fauna and flora. The park is located in Queensland northwest of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The palm tree has a thin and smooth trunk that can reach more than ten meters high and about twenty or twenty-five centimeters in diameter, is light gray and has narrow horizontal rings of dark gray, are the marks of the leaves falls. The plant usually has a single trunk, sometimes two. The crown of the palm tree can measure three or four meters in diameter in adult specimens. It has no thorns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The leaves are pinnate or composed of feathery appearance, develop at the upper end of the trunk and are joined to it by means of long petioles of twenty to forty centimeters in length, of gray color. The leaves are bright green in the beam and pale green on the underside, the spine “spine of the leaf” is brownish gray in adults, green in young leaves. They can measure more than two and a half meters in length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This plant is known as “foxtail” because of the arched shape of its leaves and the arrangement of the leaflets, they are leaves composed of elongated leaflets with irregular and jagged edges, the leaflets develop on the stem or rachis of the leaf in all directions giving an appearance of “foxtail” or “clean bottles”. The central leaflets in adult specimens are longer than the lateral ones and can measure about seventy centimeters in length. An adult tree can have up to ten large compound leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adult plants bloom, their flowers are yellowish white or cream, they arise in horizontal clusters or pendulums up to a meter in length at the base of the palm tree’s crown, underneath their leaves. A single specimen can develop fruits, since it has male and female flowers. The fruits are green, are elongated and globose, when mature they change to orange or reddish color they measure about five centimeters in length and contain a single seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunny or partially sunny situation soil rich in nutrients with very good drainage. To fertilize the land in the spring with a slow release fertilizer, the young specimens are grateful for liquid fertilizers for green plants during the growing season. It does not tolerate salinity but resists calcareous soils. Regular irrigation keeping the substrate slightly humid especially in spring and summer with high temperatures, avoiding soaking the ground, can resist moderate and brief droughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n