Royal Palm

Roystonea regia, commonly known as the royal palm, Cuban royal palm or Florida royal palm, is a species of palm native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Florida and parts of Central America. It is a large palm, 20 to 30 metres tall, with a smooth grey-white trunk and a distinctive green crownshaft. The flowers are white with pinkish anthers, and the fruit turns from green to red and then purplish-black. It is widely planted as an ornamental and is used for thatch, construction timber and in some forms of traditional medicine. It is the national tree of Cuba. Wikipedia says it plays an important role in popular religion in Cuba: in Santería it is associated primarily with Shango or with his father Aggayú, and it has symbolic importance in the Palo faiths and the Abakuá fraternity. It also has a role in Palm Sunday observances in Roman Catholicism.