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  • Deliveries completed for the 2024 season - New orders will be shipped starting in April 2025.
  • Deliveries completed for the 2024 season - New orders will be shipped starting in April 2025.

Miniature Chusan Palm Trachycarpus wagnerianus

Regular price $35.00

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Seedlings started 4 years ago!

A wonderful palm for outdoor pot cultivation that can be moved into the garage in November or December.

Winter hardy to USDA Zones 8b-11. Better winter hardiness than most other palms (tolerates brief temperature dips to 15-20 degrees F. in winter). Easily grown in rich, moist, well-drained soils. Best growth occurs in Mediterranean-type climates. Prefers a bright sunny location, but tolerates part shade. Loses compact shape in too much shade. Best with consistent moisture, but has some drought tolerance once established. Avoid overly moist soils. This palm is often propagated by seed. Dividing clumps or removing suckers can be difficult. Specimens purchased in pots from nurseries are often reasonably priced. In colder areas where plants are not winter hardy, they may be grown in containers which can be brought indoors and overwintered in cool, bright sunny locations.

Noteworthy Characteristics

Chamaerops humilis, commonly known as Mediterranean fan palm or European fan palm, is a single- to multiple-trunked evergreen palm with an upright irregular form that typically matures as a shrub or small tree growing to 6-15’ tall with a spread to 6-20’ wide. It often suckers from the base of the main trunk to form a clump of 8-10 trunks, but it can be easily trained to grow with a single trunk by regularly removing the suckers. It is the northernmost naturally occurring palm in the world, and the only palm that is native to Europe. Notwithstanding its outdoor growth potential, it typically matures to only 5’ tall when grown indoors in containers. It is native to rocky hills and mountains of the western Mediterranean Basin from Africa’s Atlas Mountains in Morocco, Algeria and Tunesia to Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.

Huge, distinctive, triangular, fine-textured, palmate-compound leaves are ornamentally attractive. Each leaf (to 24” long and as wide) has 10-20 narrow, finger-like, deeply divided leaflets which are arranged in the shape of a fan at the end of a spiny petiole (leaf stalk to 3-4’ long), hence the common name of fan palm. Leaves are variable in both color (light blue green to silver green) and shape (shrub to small tree). Bright yellow flowers bloom in spring, but are typically hidden from view behind the leaf stems. Flowers are followed by dark yellow, orange or brown fruits that ripen in fall. Flowers and fruits are somewhat inconspicuous and not showy. Trunks on mature palms are covered with a dark mat of fibers and old leaf bases.


Mature size  MAX 2m but after a very long time.

Sun or part-shade exposure. Its foliage is looser in the shade and less attractive.

Any soil. Rich and fresh is best.


Hardiness Zones

  • 9a

Growth speed

  • Lente

Light

  • Mi-ombre

IMPORTANT: We do not deliver trees that are 7' and taller! (Pick-up at the nursery only). Orders placed from now on will be delivered in the spring. Please select your preferred delivery week at the bottom of the cart.

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