NYPA FRUTICANS

NYPA FRUTICANS

🌱 GROWTH FORM

It is a medium to large-sized, clumping stemless palm with rhizomes.
Features large, erect leaf fronds above ground, measuring 4–10 m long.
Leaf fronds have stout leaf stalks that are bulbous at the base, 1–1.4 m long.
Smooth, brownish-black bark.

🌿 FOLIAGE

Alternate, stalked, large, erect leaves, approximately 4–10 m long, slightly recurved.
Pinnate leaves with up to 100 lanceolate leaflets arranged regularly on each side of the rachis.
Leaflets: 60–130 cm long, 5–8 cm wide, pointed, shiny green on the upper surface, powdery on the lower surface.
The midrib of each leaflet is marked with regular linear brown scales, up to 2 cm long.

🏵️ FLOWERS

The erect inflorescence is borne on a long, sturdy peduncle, 1–2 m long, emerging from the underground stem.
Male and female flowers are borne separately on the inflorescence.
Female flowers form a spherical head, approximately 25–30 cm in diameter.
Male flowers form a catkin below the female inflorescence head.

🍊 FRUITS

Brown to dark brown fruits borne on a spherical infructescence, 30–45 cm in diameter.
Each individual fruit is reversed egg-shaped to oblong ellipsoid, one-seeded fibrous drupe, with an angular tip.
Fruit size: 10–15 cm long, 5–8 cm wide.
Seed: White in color, egg-shaped, approximately 5 cm long and 4 cm wide.

Nypa fruticans are naturally distributed by the river, slitting brackish waters; best growth in humid, sub-leprosy tropical climates all year round, there is no cold month; It is a common mangrove tree: Southern Plains, riverside, central Coastal Lagoon.