Wild Flowering Plants
| Arecaceae family Roystonea oleracea (Jacquin) O.F. Cook, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28(10): 554. 1901. Bas.: Areca oleracea Jacquin (1763). Escaped rare tree. Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, South America. I have only seen this species in secondary formations. See also Roystonea regia. The living fronds of Roystonea oleracae are mainly held up above the horizontal. Cultivated ornamental |