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Round Island
bottle palm tree
Bio Height: 3.1–3.7 m I am the bottle palm from Round Island, and
along with my four brothers, I live on the
Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. My
name is Round Island bottle palm.
26–27 Blast from
the past
The Round Island bottle
palm belongs to the
large family of palms—
the first fossil records
of which date back to
eighty million
years ago.
My bottle
When I was a child, people called
me a funny looking fellow because
my trunk was swollen at the bottom,
making me look like a bottle. As I
grew up, my trunk straightened out
and as I get older, it might become a
little conical. On the top, I have four to
eight leaves shaped like arches, with a
central midrib and leaflets branching
out of it on both sides.
bottle palm tree
Bio Height: 3.1–3.7 m I am the bottle palm from Round Island, and
along with my four brothers, I live on the
Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. My
name is Round Island bottle palm.
26–27 Blast from
the past
The Round Island bottle
palm belongs to the
large family of palms—
the first fossil records
of which date back to
eighty million
years ago.
My bottle
When I was a child, people called
me a funny looking fellow because
my trunk was swollen at the bottom,
making me look like a bottle. As I
grew up, my trunk straightened out
and as I get older, it might become a
little conical. On the top, I have four to
eight leaves shaped like arches, with a
central midrib and leaflets branching
out of it on both sides.
