Pseudophoenix Species, Dominican Cherry Palm, Cacheo de Oviedo

As an adult plant (sorry, don't have a photo of one) these are one of the most ornamental of all palms. They have a thick, ringed, smoot...Read Moreh tapering trunk (narrow at the base and getting wider on up, to just about the crownshaft, where they suddenly narrow) all topped with a leather sprig of arching blue-green leaves. However, to get to this form, from a seedling, even in their native habitat, takes many decades. It is a not a palm often grown and appreciated as an adult by the same individual. No mature forms of this species exist in the US that I am aware of... in fact, outside the Dominican Republic, this palm is extremely rare. Here in California it is pretty marginal, and the seedlings easily damp off and rot... needs a very warm climate to be happy.

Pseudophoenix ekmanii are very rare but worth a try if you can find one. They seem to be as hardy as any other pseudophoenix but requir...Read Moree some protection from the Arizona summer sun.