Foxtail
The Foxtail Palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) is a species of
flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.
The Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia (PACSOA) describes this "Very attractive palm with long (2-3m.)
plumose leaves (hence the name 'Foxtail'), and up to 10m
tall with a grey trunk. It produces large (about the size of a duck egg) orange
fruit"
Most of the world was unaware of the existence of this
'spectacular' palm until 1978, when an Aboriginal man brought
it to botanists and the world's attention.
The Aboriginal name of that Aboriginal man has been recorded as being
"Wodyeti", thus the genus name for this Australian endemic species
Wodyetia.
Physical Attributes
Flowering: White flowers stalk that comes from the base of the
crownshaft.
Foliage: Variance of greenish colors; deep green to light
green colors. Received its more commonly known Australian-English name from the
appearance of its foliage, which is in a shape of a fox’s tail.
Fruits: 2 inches long. Olive green to green in
the early stages. Orange red when ripe.
Trunk: Similar to the king palm, the foxtail palm trunk is
smooth, thin, and self-cleaning. It grows a single, double, or triple trunk
that is slightly spindle-shaped to columnar reaching heights of about 30 ft.
The trunk also has a closely ringed, dark grey to light gray color which slowly
turns more and more white. The crownshaft of the foxtail palm is light to
bright green and slightly swollen at the base.
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