Campestre palm [W]
Trithrinax campestris or caranday palm is a South American arecaceae palm native of Uruguayan and northeastern Argentine sabanas, where it shares its habitat with Copernicia alba among others and extends also to the summits of mountain ranges of Sierras de Córdoba and Sierras de San Luis. It is a very rustic palm that grows in arid, well drained, rocky soils. Its distinctive features are its compact shape, short green to grayish foliage, and trunk fully hidden by dry dead branches (coat) remaining from several previous seasons.
Trithrinax campestris is a monocot flowering palm of relative low height (up to 6 m tall) and 20–25 cm wide stems usually covered by remains of earlier foliage that act as a thick protective coat. Caranday leaves are about 1 m long, palmate, rounded, with a ... ...Read More
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GENUS [A]Trithrinax
SUB-FAMILY [N]Coryphoideae
TRIBE [N]Cryosophileae
PUBLICATION [A]
Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 283 (1879)
BIOLOGY [C][3]
Distribution [C][3]
Uruguay, Argentina Northwest, Argentina Northeast
USES [W]
Leaves are rich in strong fiber, very resistant to tension. It is extracted to manufacture crafts as hats, shoes and fans. Whole leaves are cut and used as rudimentary brushes. Fruits are not eaten, however, an alcoholic beverage is prepared locally through their fermentation. Caranday palms are also appreciated and grown worldwide as an easy to keep, cold weather and drought resistant, ornamental small palm. It is besides a good honey-producing plant.
SYNONYMS [C]
Chamaethrinax hookeriana H.Wendl. ex R.Pfister
Copernicia campestris Burmeist.
CULTIVATION
Cold Hardiness Zone (USDA) 8a
GROWTH RATE
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE
exposure
MAX HEIGHT
BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES
[3] Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
[A] Palmweb - Palms of the World Online - http://www.palmweb.org
[C] WCSP 2013. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Retrieved 2011 onwards
[N] The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
[W] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trithrinax_campestris
eMonocot: http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:209205
The World Checklist of Monocotyledons: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
IUCN Red List: http://discover.iucnredlist.org