Saturday, July 3, 2010

Fishtail Palm


The Fishtail palm is an attractive clustering palm tree native to Southeast Asia where it grows in tropical rain forests. This beautiful palm is widely used palm in tropical and sub-tropical climates as well indoors.
There are 13 types of palm trees known as fishtail palms.All of them are easy recognized for the shapes of their leaves.They are plants with bipinnate foliage.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Mexican palm

Mexican palm is a tall, fast growing, father palm tree from Northern California. Mexican palm are perfect landscape trees for accenting large building and creating beautiful symmetrical landscapes along avenues and streets. Mexican palm is not a goot tree for residential landcape because of its height. This palm grows to a height of 100 feet and even taller.When young this palm can be palnted into any landscape.Mexican palm is similar to the California palm, only it grows faster and taller, and it is less hardy.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

King Palm


A king palm is a medium sized palm tree with a gray, smooth trunk and bright green pinnate leaves that are silver underside. The King palm is a beautiful palm tree that has fast growth rate. It is a nice tropical plant for small to large gardens.It can be used as a single specimen, as a street tree and a container item.The King palm is native to Queensland's coastal rainforest in Australis.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Cardboard palm


A cardboard palm is not a palm tree, but considered a palm-like plant. It is often used as an indoor potted plant or in landscapes underneath tall trees and plants. It is very easy to grow even in cold climates. It just requires feed couple times a year: in early spring and late summer.


A cardboard palm is a prehistoric plant, it hasn't changed a lot since the age of the dinosaur. A Cardboard palm get is name from its stiff leaves which feel like cardboard and plastic. The leaves are very similar in shape to fern leaves. A cardboard palm is a clumping plant that grows 10 feet wide and 3 feet tall. The botanical name for this plant is the Zamia furfuracea.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Palm Trees




















Palm Trees are any flowering tropical plants with a single or multiple stems and feather or fan shaped fronds on the top of the stem. All palm trees are unbranched. They look like trees, but some of them are shrubs. Palm trees usually grow in hot tropical climate, but sometimes they can be seen in north cold climates.