Dictyocaryum
Dictyocaryum is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in South America which is closely related to the Iriartea genus; they are commonly called araque or palma real. As many as eleven species have been described but this number is reduced to three in most current accounts. The genus name translates from two Greek words meaning "net" and "nut", describing the thick network of raphe fibers around the seed.
Description
Dictocaryum palms are usually solitary in nature though D. ptarianum will occasionally cluster in habitat. All three plants have conical masses of stilt roots at the base which are armed with spines. The trunks are conspicuously ringed by leaf scars, to 30 cm wide, and in D. lamarckianum reach over 20 m in height. All have tall crownshafts and 4-6 large, plumose, pinnate leaves. The leaves may be sparsely to densely tomentose on the rachis and petiole, the leaflets are regularly and widely spaced, up to 60 cm long, dark green on top and glaucous on the underside.
Podcasts:
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by Disney
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by Hilary Duff
Tiki Tiki Room
by: DisneyAll the birds sing words
And the flowers croon
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
Welcome to our tropical hideaway
You lucky people, you
If we weren't in the show starting right away
We'd be in the audience too
(chorus)
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
All the birds sing words
And the flowers croon
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room (repeat)
The bird Paradise is an elegant bird
He loves to be seen and it loves to be heard
Most little birdies will fly away
But the tiki room birds are here everyday
(chorus)
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
All the birds sing words
And the flowers croon
At the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room (repeat)
Da da da da da da da
We're singing in the tiki room
Da da da da da da da
Crooning in the tiki room (repeat)
The show is delightful
We hope you'll agree
We hope that it fills you with pleasure and glee
Because if we don't make you feel like that
We gonna wind up on a lady's hat
(chorus)
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
All the birds sing words
And the flowers croon
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room (repeat)
Da da da da da da da
We're singing in the tiki room
Da da da da da da da
Crooning in the tiki room (repeat)