Copernicia (Noun)
Meaning
Slow-growing tropical fan palms.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The slow-growing Copernicia is valued for its elegant, spreading habit, but not its rapid production of suckers and seedlings.
- Palms such as Copernicia demand great care and protection from extreme weather conditions when transported.
- Copernicia, with its silver-leaved underside, offers unusual aesthetic opportunities for landscape tropical garden designers.
- Cuban native plants such as Copernicia cerifera can play a key role in conservation by giving local wildlife habitat.
- Through repeated division, a large cluster of planted Copernicia may eventually reach dozens of individual palm trees, the fruits of which provide rich nutrients for the local ecosystem.