Description
Accent palm, residential and commercial plantings, a versatile palm for textural and color accents in mesic, oasis and xeric landscape design themes located in arid and semiarid climates. B. armata will not grow in humid subtropical or tropical climates like Florida. It likes it dry!
Form & Character: Classy, single-trunk palm with an elephant hide like, semi-self shedding trunk. It is similar to a small W. filifera in stature (except for the color of the fronds). A reserved and dignified palm.
Growth Habit: This is a VERY slow growing palm, especially when young, but eventually will reach 30 or more feet in height. At 15 years from seed, it will only be about 5 to 8 feet tall.
Foliage/texture: Large fronds are costapalmate (possessing a longitudinal rib), glaucous blue gray and partially subdivided into as many as 20 to 40 pinnae. Petioles are only slightly armed (dark thorns) and extend inlength to more than half of the central leaf blade. Fronds on mature specimens can spread in width to 5 to 9 feet; coarse textured.
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