Corypha taliera

On October 18, 2008, Daily Prothom Alo reported that the plant is about to bloom. According to botanists, the plant will die after it blooms.

Corypha taliera is a species of palm, native to Bengal region of South Asia. There is one last plant left of this extinct species, which is protected and grows in the scrub jungle on the Dhaka University campus, Bangladesh. On October 18, 2008, Daily Prothom Alo reported that the plant is about to bloom. According to botanists, the plant will die after it blooms. More

In 1979, a Corypha taliera, located in a village near Shantiniketan of West Bengal, had begun flowering, and the locals fearing that it was a “ghost palmyra tree” - due to its horn-like flowers - chopped it down. The seeds of that specimen could not be saved. More