Foxtail palm
Wodyetia bifurcata A.K.Irvine
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 9.1 m
- wide
- —
Arecaceae
Also called Foxtail Palm
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Queensland (Melville Range)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 9.1 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from UF/IFAS and Chicago Botanic Garden, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: UF/IFAS white; Chicago Botanic Garden green
- Coldest it survives
- 1.7 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from UF/IFAS and Chicago Botanic Garden, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: UF/IFAS -1.1 °C; Chicago Botanic Garden 4.4 °C
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 狐尾棕 (狐尾椰子), 狐尾椰, 狐尾椰子
- Portuguese
- rabo-de-raposa
- Chinese (China)
- 狐尾椰
- Russian
- Водиетия вильчатая
- Thai
- ปาล์มหางหมาจิ้งจอก
- Spanish
- Palma Cola de Zorro
- Hebrew
- דקל זנב שועל
- Slovak
- chvostnatka rozvidlená
- Turkish
- Tilki Kuyruğu Palmiyesi
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Chicago Botanic Garden, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Wodyetia bifurcata (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.