Revisiting Katou-Indel in 17th-century botanical treatise Hortus Malabaricus yields new finds for researchers

Recent studies on the palm, named Katou-Indel in Hortus Malabaricus, have led researchers to conclude that the trees found in Kerala and Sri Lanka and elsewhere in India and neighbouring Bangladesh and Pakistan are two distinct species of the genus Phoenix

​Recent studies on the palm, named Katou-Indel in Hortus Malabaricus, have led researchers to conclude that the trees found in Kerala and Sri Lanka and elsewhere in India and neighbouring Bangladesh and Pakistan are two distinct species of the genus Phoenix