Copernicia
Copernicia alba Morong
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 22 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Arecaceae
Formerly Copernicia australis, Copernicia nigra, Copernicia ramulosa, Copernicia rubra, and 1 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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- WC. Brazil to NE. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 22 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 25–25 m; Plants For A Future 18–18 m
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (1)
- Chinese
- 白蜡棕
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Copernicia alba (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.