Alternate name: Paurotis Palm, Saw Cabbage

Family: Arecaceae, Palm view all from this family

Description Height: 35' (10.76 m).
Trunk: slender, 6" (18 cm) in diameter, clustered, covered with reddish-brown leafstalk bases.
Leaves: 3' (1 m) long, fan-shaped; deeply palmately divided into folded, linear segments. Leafstalk spiny-edged, orange-tinged.
Flowers: In hanging clusters, to 7" (22 cm) long.
Fruit: Small round berrylike fruits, in clusters, turning from green to orange to black.

Habitat Swamps, wet areas, towns.

Range  Cultivated in southern Florida; grows wild only in Everglades National Park.