Shop the Silver Serenoa Repens Tree - A Majestic Addition to Your Garden
- Common name:
- Serenoa Silver
- Category:
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Palms and Cycads, Shrubs
- Family:
- Palmae or Coconut family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate less, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers are inconspicuous
- Foliage color:
- Blue Grey or Silver, Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 6 to 8 meters
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 6 to 8 meters
- Plant Form:
- Spreading, Upright or Erect
- Special Character:
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- Rare Plant or difficult to get plant
- Good for screening
- Good for Hedges and Borders
- Thorny or Spiny
- Salt or salinity tolerant
- Good on seaside
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Less than a hundred
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Plant Description:
- - This palm is from the USA where it forms huge clumps in the south eastern states.
- The clustering trunks are subterranean until they are of some age at which time they usually emerge above ground and can grow to 20 feet long.
- The 3 feet wide leaves are borne on 3 to 5 feet long.
- Leaf color varies from dull light grayish green to medium pure green to almost pure silver or bluish silver.
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Growing tips:
- - The palm is hardy.
- It grows in partial shade as well as the full blazing sun of southern florida.
- It loves sandy soil and has great saline tolerance.
