Wodyetia

Wodyetia
Wodyetia bifurcata
Conservation status
Conservation Dependent (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Genus: Wodyetia Species: W. bifurcata
Binomial name
Wodyetia bifurcata Irvine

The Foxtail Palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family^[1]

The Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia (PACSOA) describes this Palm as follows:

"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"^[2]

Physical Attributes

Looking up at a cluster of Foxtail Palm Seeds

Flowering: White flowers stalk that comes from the base of the crownshaft.^[5]

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.^[5]

Fruits: 2 inches long. Olive green to green in the early stages. Orange red when ripe.^[5].

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^[5].

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