Mazhar Botanic Garden

Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H.Wendll

Windmill Palm Chinese Windmill Palm Chusan Palm

Sample code: EGY-MBG-000071
Common name: Windmill Palm, Chinese Windmill Palm, Chusan Palm
Arabic name: نخلة الطاحونة ، تراشيكاربس ، كميروبس مفرد
Native: China, Japan, India
Country: China India Japan
(PGR): Cultivated plant

Trunk densely covered with hair-like from old leaf sheaths dioecious evergreen palm, 12-20 m tall, 15-30 cm in diameter leaves fan shaped, dark green, with a nearly circular blade to 1 m across flower yellowish in drooping panicles female flowers give way to dark blue drupes

•Ornamental palm. The fibres cloaking the trunk are used to make ropes and cloth. The fibres from within the leafstalk are used for making brushes, ropes, coarse cloth etc. A matting is made from the bark admixed with some of the stem fibres.

Chamaerops excelsa hort Chamaerops fortunei Hook

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Texture: Clay Loam
Drainage: Well drained
Water Sources: Moderate Water
Climates: Dry
Lights: Semi shade
Propagation: Seeds, about 12 weeks germinated
Flowering time: Early summer
Zone: 8 : 11

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