tal·i·pot palm 
(t
ăl
ə-p
ŏt
′)
n. A large fan-leaved palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of South Asia that lives up to 80 years and flowers only once, producing a huge inflorescence and dying shortly after the fruits mature.
[Ultimately from Sanskrit tālapattram, palm leaf used for writing : tālaḥ, palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer); see TODDY + pattram, leaf; see pet- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

talipot palmCorypha umbraculifera