| A truly magnificent and stunning palm from central and eastern Cuba, where it grows in savanna and dry woodland at low elevations. It forms a very thick and sturdy, smooth, slightly ventricose, whitish gray trunk that can reach about 20 m (67 ft.) tall. It supports a dense crown of numerous very rigid, stiffly ascending leaves with a perfectly circular outline. |
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Cultivation 
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Substrate |
Temperature during winter |
Lighting |
Watering during automn-winter |
Watering during hot season |
Fertilizer during growth |
Pruning |
Repotting |
1 gravel + 1 soil + 1 humus |
Indoor during winter temperature min. 17C |
Sunny |
Rarely or from time to time |
Regularly but without excess, and especialy during summer |
Rarely and with parsimony |
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zone 12 = Winter minimum temperature above 10C (above 50F) 
