Acoelorrhaphe Species, Everglades Palm, Madeira Palm, Silver Saw Palmetto, Saw Cabbage

This palm can certainly live outside of zone 10, I've had one growing for three years and it has done wonderfully. It enjoys the abundan...Read Moret rainfall here on the upper Texas gulf coast and doesn't require much other than pruning...but it tends to yellow quickly if given too much water.

This palm will speed up its growth in CA, and look a lot nicer (usually they look terrible) if you give it lots of water. THe more water ...Read Morethe better and the faster.

This palm is one of the most adaptable palms that grow well in Southern California- can handle bogs, and yet is drought tolerant. It dea...Read Morels with high winds and open spaces as well as darker, shady gardens. Soils vary from alkaline to acidic. Only problem for us here in southern California (U.S.) is it's a lot slower than in Florida. It's a nice clumping fan palm with silvery undersides to the leaves and fairly 'user friendly'. It has very fine, almost inconspicuous (but razor-sharp) teeth along the petioles. In Florida, where it is much more commonly grown (and to where it is a native), it is susceptible to ganoderma, a root/stem fungus that is lethal and untreatable. Here in California, this palm does great in extreme heat situations, such as found in Palm Springs.