Calamus cawa

Botanical Description

Calamus cawa is a spiny, evergreen, climbing palm producing very vigorous, slender, unbranched stems. Stem roots are produced at the lowest nodes[ 983 Title Annals of the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta Vol. XI and Appendix Publication Author Dr Odoardo Beccari Publisher Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta Year 1908 ISBN Description This volume of the journal is dedicated entirely to a monograph of the genus Calamus, which remains an important treatment over 100 years later. ]. The stems are commonly harvested from the wild for mainly local use as a tying material and for basketry[ 983 Title Annals of the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta Vol. XI and Appendix Publication Author Dr Odoardo Beccari Publisher Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta Year 1908 ISBN Description This volume of the journal is dedicated entirely to a monograph of the genus Calamus, which remains an important treatment over 100 years later. ].