Botanical Name: Syagrus romanzoffiana (=Cocos plumosa)
Common Name: Queen Palm

 

Use: Outdoors
Indigenous/Exotic : Exotic
Evergreen/Deciduous : Evergreen
Plant Type : Palm
Flower Colour : Green
Foliage Colour : Green
Best Season : All seasons
Light : Sun
Hardiness : Hardy
Attributes :
Height (m) : 12 - 15
Spread (m) : 6 - 10
    
Notes : The perfect plant for cold gardens where a tropical look is required. This particularly attractive palm with a smooth trunk, sometimes swollen around the middle, and lovely plume-like arching fronds is grown all over South Africa. Reaching a height of 12 to 15 metres, it is ideal for both small and large gardens. Grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun. The leaves are 3 - 5 metres long, each with many linear, mid-green leaflets. Orange glanded green flowers are borne, usually in summer. The fruit is yellow and fleshy and 2 and a half centimetres in diameter.