Raffia palm

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Raffia palms (Raphia) are a genus of twenty species of palms native to tropical regions of Africa, especially Madagascar, with one species (R. taedigera) also occurring in Central and South America. They grow up to 16 m tall and are remarkable for their compound pinnate leaves, the longest in the plant kingdom, leaves of R. regalis up to 25.11 m long and 3 m wide are known. The plants are either monocarpic, flowering once and then dying after the seeds are mature, or hapaxanthic, with individual stems dying after fruiting but the root system remaining alive and sending up new stems. This plant holds the world record for "longest leaves" for its leaves that can reach 65 feet long.... Mehr