Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Archontophoenix cunninghamiana
Common name
Bangalow palm, Piccabeen palm
Family
Arecaceae
Where found
In or near rainforest, mostly in moist sites beside creeks and on alluvial flats. Remnant trees in paddocks. Coastal north from Batemans Bay.
Notes
Tree to 30 m high. Fruit fleshy. Trunk smooth, becoming fissured with age, with widely spaced rings (leaf scars). Leaves clustered at the top of the trunk, compound, 300–450 cm long, with 80-200 leaflets each 30–100 cm long, 20–100 mm wide, green on both surfaces, margins entire. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers pink or mauve to purple, with 3 petals. Male flowers 7-11 mm in diameter, female flowers up to 4-5 mm long in bud. Flowers 1-3 together, in many-flowered branched clusters about 100–150 cm long. Flowering: autumn. Fruit red, round, 13–15 mm in diameter.
Protected NSW.
PlantNT description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Archontophoenix~cunninghamiana (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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