ARECA PALM (OUTDOOR)
The Areca Palm tree is an ideal way to add some tropical flair to your home. The areca palm boasts lush, bright-green leaves on its delicate, arching fronds as well as its yellow rachis. Areca palm plant is one of the best air purifiers indoor and outdoor plants to clean the air.
Areca Palm can also be used as a Large corner accent palm, in a pool cage planter, to cover a blank wall, fence, side of house, garage or as outdoor plant.
BANANA TREE
This Banana Tree, Musa paradisiaca, produces large clusters of sweet, flavorful bananas. It also yields a tall, ornamental trunk and large leaves for added visual appeal in any garden. Its reliable production of delicious, nutrient-rich fruits makes it an ideal choice for your edible landscape.
Musa paradisiaca Or Banana Tree ???? ????? is upright, very variable, mid-green leaf-blades, to 1.5m long. Pendent clusters of yellow flowers, with reddish purple bracts, are produced irregularly throughout the year. Seedless yellow fruit, to 20cm long, borne in long bunches, have sweet-tasting white pulp.
BOTTLE PALM
The Bottle Palm, Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis, is a tropical palm tree known for its unique bottle-shaped trunk. It produces bright green foliage and beautiful clusters of yellow flowers. Ideal for container planting, the Bottle Palm is a low-maintenance choice for any outdoor space.
Hyophorbe lagenicaulis is Small palm with a flask-shaped grey trunk, swollen at ground level, with vertical fissures in the bark. The narrowly ovate, pinnate leaves, 1.3-1.8m long, have many linear, mid- to deep green leaflets. In summer, bears tiny, green to cream flowers in panicles to 80cm long.
CARDBOARD PALM (ZIZI OUTDOOR)
A very robust landscaping plant which will grow in full sun to part shade. The leaves are long and tend to remain horizontal (especially if grown in shade) with rounded leaflets which are particularly stiff and thick with a furry texture.
Zamia furfuracea is also known as Cardboard palm. Is a small cycad with a partly underground, simple or rarely branched, cylindrical trunk. Bears terminal whorls of semi-erect to spreading, pinnate leaves, to 1m long, each with up to 24 oblong or inversely lance-shaped to obovate, stiff, pale green leaflets, later olive-green, with red-brown hairs. Produces felted, red-brown female flower cones, 10-13cm long, usually in summer.
CHIKU
Manilkara zapota Or Chicko Tree a superb shade, street (where falling fruit will not be a problem), or fruit tree, Sopadilla reaches a height of 45 feet with a 40-foot spread. The smooth, dark, and glossy, six-inch-long evergreen leaves are clustered at the tips of twigs and the small, cream-colored solitary flowers appear in the leaf axils throughout the year. The four-inch-wide, scurfy brown fruits have a juicy, sweet, yellow-brown flesh and ripen to softness in spring and summer. The flower-to-fruit period is about ten months. The bark and branches, when injured, bleed a white latex which is the source of chicle, the original base for chewing gum. The trunk on older specimens is flaky and quite attractive, and flares at the base into numerous surface roots.
CHINESE FAN PALM (LIVISTONA CHINENSIS)
Livistona Chinensis or the Chinese fan palm or fountain palm is a species of the subtropical palm tree of east Asia. It is native to southern Japan, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, southeastern China, and Hainan.
Livistona chinensis, Chinese Fan Palm or Fountain Palm is medium-sized palm with an erect, robust trunk swollen at the base, the upper part covered with fibrous leaf bases, at least at first. Glossy, rich green leaves, to 2m long, with shorter, spiny leaf-stalks, are divided for up to two-thirds of their leangth into many linear, pendent segments. Cream flowers are borne in panicles to 1m or more long, usually in summer, followed by ovoid to spherical, glossy, blue-green to grey-pink fruit, 2-2.5cm across.
COCONUT PALM
Cocos nucifera or coconut palm is a large palm with a swollen, tapered base, an often-leaning grey trunk, and pinnate, bright green leaves, 4-6m long, with many linear leaflets. Small, bowl-shaped, fragrant, cream to yellow flowers are borne at intervals throughout the year, followed by ovoid fruit, each with a green to ochre-yellow or orange-red exterior covering a fibrous brown husk. Height 20-30cm, Spread 12m. Native of Coastal tropical region.
