Digital identification tool: Cultivated Palms
Published: Wed, 07 Oct 2015, 11:33Last updated: Wed, 07 Oct 2015, 11:33
Palms are one of the most easily recognizable plant groups. Originally named “Principes,” the princes of the plant world, by Linnaeus, palms and their products are an integral part of human culture in warmer regions of the globe. Palms are commonly cultivated as ornamentals, and many palms have been used as crop plants for centuries, providing important sources of food and a variety of other products. As such, palms are one of the most economically important groups of plants. This tool is designed to help users identify cultivated palms. The ability to identify a palm host is an important aid to pest and disease identification, as many diseases and pests may be host specific. This tool supports users that may only have a portion of a complete representative sample of a plant. This tool allows users to identify many specimens to species, though this is not possible in all cases, as many palms are capable of hybridizing.
Resources on this page are not intended to be interpretations of ISPMs and terminology used may not be consistent with ISPM 5. Unless otherwise indicated resources, or pest distributions contained within them are not endorsed/adopted/agreed by the CPM nor developed under the auspices of the IPPC Secretariat, and are the exclusive responsibility of the author of the contributed phytosanitary resource.
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