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Veitchia arecina 'Soledad'

COMMON NAME

Montgomery Palm

TYPE

​Palm

FAMILY

​Arecaceae

NOTES

A very attractive, tall, solitary, pinnate palm with a slender grey trunk to 30 m high. It has a slender white crownshaft with black, gray and green speckling. Its long arching leaves have long green slightly drooping leaflets with serrated tips.  A Rancho Soledad introduction.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Found in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu

NATIVE HABITAT

Grows in moist rainforests.

WEB SOURCES

palmpedia.net

wikipedia.org

merwinconservancy.org