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'''''Roystonea oleracea''''', sometimes known as the '''Caribbean royal palm''',{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} '''palmiste''', '''imperial palm'''{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} or '''cabbage palm''', is a species of [[Arecaceae|palm]] which is native to the [[Lesser Antilles]], [[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]], and [[Trinidad and Tobago]]. It is also reportedly naturalized in [[Guyana]] and on the islands of [[Mauritius]] and [[Réunion]] in the [[Indian Ocean]].<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=180144 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, ''Roystonea oleracea'']</ref>
 
Its [[specific epithet (botany)|specific epithet]] ''oleracea'' means "vegetable" in Latin and is a form of {{wikt-lang|la|holeraceus}} ({{lang|la|oleraceus}}).
 
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