Foxtail palm is a beautiful palm with one of the
most spectacular leaves. The pale green arching fronds have leaflets
that radiate out at all angles from the leaf stem, thus appearing like
a bottlebrush or the tail of a fox. The mature tree has a canopy of
8-10 leaves, each with the characteristic foxtail or bottlebrush
appearance, and a crown of leaves 15-20 ft across. Foxtail palm is
thornless and has a slender, closely ringed bottle shaped to columnar
trunk that grows up to 30 ft tall. It bears white blossoms of both
sexes at the base of its crown, and a single palm is capable of
producing fertile seeds. Foxtail palm produces colorful clusters of red
to orange-red fruit, each containing just one seed. oxtail palm is
native to Australia.
Identification credit: Regy Yohannan
Photographed in Kerala.
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