- Pronunciation: ar-kon-toe-FEE-nix cun-ing-HAME-ee-ah
- Common Name: Picabeen, Bangalow Palm
- Derivation: Archontophoenix: G. archontos - a chieftan, phoenix - date Palm cunninghamiana: honours Alan Cunningham, Australian explorer and Plant collector
- Type: Palm
- Family: ARACACEAE
- Size: to 25 metres
- Flowers: Light blue to Pinkish mauve, Monoecious, August to December
- Fruit: Drupe, red, round, 10-15 mm dia
- Vegetation Type: Sub-tropical, Littoral and lowland Rainforest and along moist scrubby creek banks.
- Species List: Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, Bush food, Craft, FI Podberscek, Biosphere Day Noosa Woods, Heritage Park, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Kingfisher Bay Resort, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Cooloothin Corner, Banana, Old Tewantin, Tewantin Forest Gyndier, Fraser Island, Stratford Park, Janet, NNS, Upper Yandina Creek, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, BHNR, Wallace Park, Regional Ecosystem 12.2.1. Regional Ecosystem 12.11.1. RE 12.12.1. RE 12.12.2a.
Cultural Notes
TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:
Pikki (container) made from old Leaf Sheath.
Curved Leaf base used to collect grubs.
Bush food: Growing Bud of new Leaves eaten raw or cooked like cabbage. Cutting growing Bud kills Tree.
Identification Notes
Tall Palm
Fronds: green under Leaf
Landscaping Notes
Noosa Council Preferred Species list .
Successfully propagated by Noosa & District Landcare.
Prefers shaded moist situation, fast-growing. Best grown in clumps.
Indoor pot Plant potential.
Feature foliage
Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery.
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.
Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery
Associated Fauna
Butterfly host Plant: Orange palmdart, Yellow palmdart. Skipper butterfly host Plant.
Attractive to Fruit-eating birds.
