Pronounciation: Tra-key-CAR-pus for-TUNE-ee-ii

Hardiness zones
Sunset 4-24
USDA 7 (protection), 8-11

Landscape Use: Accent, background, around swimming pools and water features.

Form & Character: Upright, stiff erect, lonely, stout.

Growth Habit: Evergreen, perennial monocot, moderately slow, single trunk palm to 40-feet tall, but usually much smaller in Phoenix.

Foliage/Texture: Palmate frond, orbicular, to 4-feet wide, segments divided and drooping, trunk fibrous and wider toward the top, petiole elongate and smooth; coarse texture.

Flowers & Fruits: Flowers are small, whitish on large, extended and branched panicles, flower stalks green; fruits globose to reniform, bluish, 0.5-inch wide, seeds depressed in center.

Seasonal Color: None

Temperature: Tolerant

Light: Partial shade best, avoid south and western exposures, full sun in non-desert areas.

Soil: Tolerant

Watering: Regular

Pruning: Removal of dead fronds.

Propagation: Seed

Disease and Pests: None

Additional comments: Windmill palm is rarely seen in Phoenix, even though it is a good palm choice for use around pools, water features or as a taller accent plant for smaller, protected landscape spots (it is a Phoenix landscape wimp). The only caveat to its use is that our local low relative humidities and intense sunlight facilitates an unsightly tattering (dessication) of the frond pinna tips.