PlantFiles: Loneliest Palm
Hyophorbe amaricaulis

Hyophorbe Amaricaulis is the rarest and loneliest living things on the planet and the sadest ! As only one is left of it's kind in Mauritius at Curepipe Botanical Garden. Difficult to impossible to propagate as also on the same plant the male and the female florescence do not occur at the same time. Many trials have been made including the Kew Garden in London but negative till now, though some years now the parks and conservation unit have been working hard . It seems there could be hope as they have found a new way to conserve the pollen in fridge and polinate it when the female flower is ready. But needs more than prayers and hope to succeed the rarest living things on earth even rarer than the Wollemi pine ! (Wonder if it could be confused with Hyophorbe Indica green)