Royal Palm (Roystonea Regia)

Royal Palm (Scientific - Roystonea Regia | Sin -  පුවඟු) is a is a very beautiful, slender, elegant and relatively fast-growing, single-stemmed evergreen palm tree that can grow from 7 - 30 metres tall the unbranched  stem which is solitary, erect, grayish white, to 30 m tall and 40-60 cm in diameter, swollen to 75 cm at the base and toward the middle.  scars are regular and closely spaced, but not raised or prominent from a distance.the leaves are pinnate, reduplicate to 3 m long, with numerous leaflets in several planes plumose, with prominent secondary ribs. The crown shaftt is bright, glossy green, slightly swollen at the base, and up to 2 m long. Lower leaves droop downward. Leaflets have acute tips, prominent secondary veins and scales along the prominent midrib's undersurface. Flowers and and the fruits are inflorescence to 1 m long and about the same width, densely branched to three orders, with separate, white staminate and pistillate flowers. Oblong to ovoid, 1-1.5 cm long fruits are purplish black when ripe.

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