Fishtail palm
ഉലട്ടി
Caryota mitis Lour.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 6.1 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Arecaceae
Also called Burmese Fishtail-palm, Burmese fishtail palm
Formerly Caryota furfuracea, Caryota griffithii, Caryota nana, Caryota propinqua, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. China to Indo-China and MalesiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- palmera cola de pescado
- Chinese
- 叢立孔雀椰子, 短穗魚尾葵, 董棕粉
- Czech
- palicha jemná
- Indonesian
- Sarai
- Japanese
- カブダチクジャクヤシ
- Chinese (China)
- 短穗鱼尾葵
- Dutch
- Zachte Vinnetjespalm
- Russian
- Кариота мягкая
- Thai
- เต่าร้างแดง
- Arabic
- قريوطة طرية
- Polish
- Kariota łagodna
- Hebrew
- קריוטה נאה, דקל זנב-הדג
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Caryota mitis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.