Adonidia Species, Christmas Palm, Dwarf Royal Palm, Kerpis Palm, Manila Palm, Merrill Palm

Fast growing palm. Easy from seed. Will not tolerate frost. Widely grown in southern Florida and other warm climates. Easy to grow and t...Read Morerouble free, very tolerant of neglect. Grows well in containers.

A very easy palm in Mauritius and quite common can even find it in nuseries and sadly grow faster than our endemics Hyophorbes . Have som...Read Moree ( 1 mature and many seedlings ) in my garden and at that time it is in bloom january . Here in Mauritius it flowers repeatedly. The seeds grow quite fast as i never noticed how fast as i throw the seeds in a corner of the garden and it just grows by itself probably less than a month to sprout. The red ripe fruits is very appreciated by some birds and are birds dispersal also . Ripe fruits pulps are very irritating if in contact with skin , so wear a pair of gloves when handling or cleaning the fruits for seeds.

One year ago we bought a house in Hollywood Florida; there was a beautiful wall of palm tree in front of the house. Because we were comin...Read Moreg from the city, we didn't know what kind of tree was. With the time and especially after the summer, half of them died by losing first their leaves and after the trunk by breaking down in half the size of the tree. We discovered they were Christmas Palms and are susceptible of lethal yellowing leaf disease. On the other hand some of them are beautiful with a solid thick trunk and got tall already in a year with beautiful red fruits.

A nice, small palm, but extremely susceptible to lethal yellowing disease (aka "LY").

Used to be a Veitchia, this is a very commonly planted avenue and garden plant throughout the tropical world (very common in Miami along ...Read Moreboulevards). It is also used as an indoor plant in less tropical areas (saw some in a mall in Seattle). It can be identified by its very strongly recurved, somewhat short leaves and lime green crownshaft.

Extremely common (almost too common) palm throughout the tropical world. Also performs surprisingly well as an indoor palm, though tends to look a bit brown-tipped and unhappy in low humidity situations (most indoor situations).

A comment about its 10a rating, though. This is humid climate rating, not Mediterranean climate rating... even in the rare zone 10bs in southern California, this palm only manages to eke its way through a few winters, and then croaks (a few exceptions in extremely favorable microclimates exist, but hardly are the rule). Florida growers may find this an easy 10b palm (10a is sort of marginal) but California growers should not even bother.