Panama hat plant
Carludovica palmata Ruiz & Pav.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Cyclanthaceae
Also called Panama Hat Plant
Formerly Carludovica gigantea, Carludovica incisa, Carludovica jamaicensis, Carludovica serrata, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Mexico to BoliviaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 2.0 m to 4.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 2.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Spanish
- paja toquilla
- Chinese
- 巴拿馬草, 巴拿马草
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Carludovica palmata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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