- Common name:
- Phoenicophorium, Stevensonia Palm, Seychelles Palm
- Category:
- Family:
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers are inconspicuous
- Foliage color:
- Green, Brown, Bronze or coppery
- Plant Height or length:
- 4 to 6 meters
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 2 to 4 meters
- Plant Form:
- Upright or Erect
- Special Character:
-
- Good for screening
- Animals will not eat
- Thorny or Spiny
- Suitable for avenue planting
- Grows best in humid and warm regions
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Less than a hundred
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Plant Description:
- - This is one thorny fellow.
- Its stems, leaf stalks and leaves are covered with spines.
- But its general shape and structure - make it quite attractive.
- After Latanier Feuille Borsig, German horticulturist.
- Leaves 2 m long & nearly 1 m wide.
- Young plants are particularly distinctive although spiny and make excellent pot specimens.
- The margins of the leaves are deeply cut giving a toothed appearance.
- The petioles & trunk are very spiny when young but become smooth with age.
- This palm grow 4-6 m tall.
- The leaves are used locally for thatch. -
Growing tips:
- - Slow growing plants.
- Do not try to grow it in areas where the winters are cool. Plants cannot tolerate cold at all.
- Shady, moist conditions required for best growth.
