The ‘Wait-a-while’ Palm (4) – The ‘Wait-a-while’ palm, also known as Yellow Lawyer Cane palm, (Calamus motii) , has special sharp hooks or spines on the long thin whip-like flagella, that enable the plant to climb high up into the canopy of the Daintree tropical rainforest towards the light by hooking onto bigger trees. Red Peak (Skyrail) Station, Barron Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia. P1150048aBlog4