Ceroxylon

In the hills along the cordilleras there are other endemics such as Ceroxylon sasaimae, Odontoglossum crispum, Heliconia reptans, H. oleosa, H. huilensis, H. mutisiana, H. laxa, H. estiletioides and H. abaloi.

Magdalena Valley montane forests 2008

Want to see the lovely wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense) in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, or the Whistler prints exhibit at the University of Arizona Museum of Art?

Paid Is the New Free 2009

Abundant populations of palms are common in the middle mountain ranges: "tagua" or ivory palm (Dictyocarium lamarckianum) between 900 and 1600 m and "palma de cera" or wax palm (Ceroxylon ceriferum) between 1800 and 2500 m.

Santa Marta montane forests 2008

In the Museum of the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, wax is shown as scraped from the trunk of the wax palm (_Ceroxylon andicola_), and candles made from it, as also some made of acorns and closely resembling common tallow.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Mauritia flexuosa; and 4th, in the alpine regions, between seven and fifteen hundred toises high, Ceroxylon andicola, Oreodoxa frigida, Kunthia montana.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Here in the Quindío wax palm habitat (Ceroxylon quindiuense, VU), which is the species’ obligate habitat, ProAves Foundation is working on conservation initiatives that are buying the yellow-eared parrot a chance for survival.

Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes 2009

One of the loftiest and most beautiful of the palm-trees -- _the wax-palm (Ceroxylon

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850