Chamaedorea pinnatifrons
Family: Arecaceae Palm Tree
Common Name: None known
Cold Hardiness Zone: 8b View the UK and US zone maps
Chamaedorea pinnatifrons Information
Identification
Stems solitary 0.5-4.5 m tall and 0.5-3 cm diameter, errect or sometimes sprawling and then rooting at the nodes. Leaves 3-10, pinnate; leaflets to 2-8 per side, sigmoid, to 11-40 cm long and 2-15 cm wide. Inflorescences erect to horizontal; males and females similar, with 2-45 flowering branches; fruits globose to ellipsoid, to 0.5-1.5 cm long and 0.4-0.5 cm diameter, always passing from green to orange or red and finally black.
General Information
Widespread and variable.
Distribution
Native to: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
Lowland to montane forest, at 40-2700 m elevation.
Location: Ecuador (-0.779273°N, -76.816406°E)
Observations
Map may not represent the complete natural distribution. (Markers display observation data).
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