Buy the Stunning Phoenix roebelenii - The Perfect Miniature Date Palm for Your Garden!
- Common name:
- Pigmy Date Palm, Miniature Date Palm, Dwarf Date Palm
- Regional name:
- Marathi - Roblini Palm
- Category:
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Palms and Cycads, Shrubs, Indoor Plants
- Family:
- Palmae or Coconut family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade, Shade growing
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers in flushes throughout the year, Flowers are inconspicuous
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- White, Yellow
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 2 to 4 meters
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 1 to 2 meters
- Plant Form:
- Spherical or rounded, Upright or Erect
- Special Character:
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- Rare Plant or difficult to get plant
- Good for Cut foliage
- Good for screening
- Good for Hedges and Borders
- Animals will not eat
- Thorny or Spiny
- Evergreen trees
- Suitable for road median planting
- Salt or salinity tolerant
- NASA plant for Indoor pollution control
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Over thousands
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Plant Description:
- - Comes to us from the nation Laos, some very close relatives are also found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- Excellent for planting in lawns, as single specimen plants or in groups.
- Mature trunk 6-8 ft tall.
- Full, rounded leaf crown 6 ft wide, tall and has 50 leaves.
- Leaves are shiny green and arch gently.
- The false petiole 5 inch long, spiny.
- Flower produce 0.5 inch long, oblong & black fruit.
- After Carl Roebelen the original collector who discovered the species in South East Asia.
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Growing tips:
- - A hardy palm.
- It grow sun or semi shade. Grows in shade as well. However the crown is sparse and leaves elongated.
- Good, friable and slightly acidic soil.
- Constant and adequate water is required.
- Slow growing plants use in gardens.
- Grows well in hot, dry, climates - as long as it is watered well.
