Adonidia merrillii -- a New Wild Population in the Philippines
- Palms, 55(2), p.57-61, 2011 .
The article offers information on the discovery of the new population of a familiar palm in the wild of Danjugan Island, near the southwestern coast of Negros Island, Philippines. It notes that the Adonidia merrillii or commonly called Manila palm or Christmas palm is the most popular and widely cultivated palm in the world. It reports a new locality for a wild population of Adonidia merrillii in a relatively small, uninhabited, and coral-fringed island of Danjugan in the Philippines.