Wax Palm

The wax-palm of Humboldt has its trunk covered by a coating of wax, which exudes from the spaces between the insertion of the leaves. ❋ Various (N/A)

One of the loftiest and most beautiful of the palm-trees -- _the wax-palm_ -- grew in these very parts, for the lower slopes of the Andes are its favourite habitat. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

I see the _abanico_, with its enormous fan-shaped leaves; the wax-palm distilling its resinous gum; and the _acrocomia_, with its thorny trunk and enormous racemes of golden fruits. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

They are the most hardy of the Palm tribe: where others would perish, or assume a dwarfed or stunted form, the wax-palm raises its stem, in the form of an elegantly-wrought column, a hundred and fifty feet high, with ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Soon after this, on the shores of a small lake, we came upon a curious tree, which Mr Laffan pronounced to be the wax-palm, or the _Ceroxilon andicola_. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

One of the loftiest and most beautiful of the palm-trees -- _the wax-palm (Ceroxylon ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)