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bamboo palm

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Noun1.bamboo palmbamboo palm - small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
lady palm - any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants
2.bamboo palm - a palm of the genus Raffia
Raffia farinifera, raffia palm, Raffia ruffia - a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks


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For less light, start with the bamboo palm (Chamaedorea Seifrizii).
Bamboo palm, rubber plant, and dracaena "Janet Craig" are large choices.
The number following each plant species indicates micrograms of formaldehyde removed from the air per hour: Dwarf date palm (Phoenix roebelenii) 1385; Bamboo palm (Chamaedorea seifriziil) 1350; Janet Craig (Dracaena deremensis) 1328; Peace lily (Spathiphyllum "Clevelandii") 937.
 
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