Palms & Trees
ARECA PALM (OUTDOOR)
The Areca Palm tree is an ideal way to add some tropical flair to your home. The areca palm boasts lush, bright-green leaves on its delicate, arching fronds as well as its yellow rachis. Areca palm plant is one of the best air purifiers indoor and outdoor plants to clean the air.
Areca Palm can also be used as a Large corner accent palm, in a pool cage planter, to cover a blank wall, fence, side of house, garage or as outdoor plant.
BANANA TREE
This Banana Tree, Musa paradisiaca, produces large clusters of sweet, flavorful bananas. It also yields a tall, ornamental trunk and large leaves for added visual appeal in any garden. Its reliable production of delicious, nutrient-rich fruits makes it an ideal choice for your edible landscape.
Musa paradisiaca Or Banana Tree ???? ????? is upright, very variable, mid-green leaf-blades, to 1.5m long. Pendent clusters of yellow flowers, with reddish purple bracts, are produced irregularly throughout the year. Seedless yellow fruit, to 20cm long, borne in long bunches, have sweet-tasting white pulp.
BOTTLE PALM
The Bottle Palm, Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis, is a tropical palm tree known for its unique bottle-shaped trunk. It produces bright green foliage and beautiful clusters of yellow flowers. Ideal for container planting, the Bottle Palm is a low-maintenance choice for any outdoor space.
Hyophorbe lagenicaulis is Small palm with a flask-shaped grey trunk, swollen at ground level, with vertical fissures in the bark. The narrowly ovate, pinnate leaves, 1.3-1.8m long, have many linear, mid- to deep green leaflets. In summer, bears tiny, green to cream flowers in panicles to 80cm long.
CARDBOARD PALM (ZIZI OUTDOOR)
A very robust landscaping plant which will grow in full sun to part shade. The leaves are long and tend to remain horizontal (especially if grown in shade) with rounded leaflets which are particularly stiff and thick with a furry texture.
Zamia furfuracea is also known as Cardboard palm. Is a small cycad with a partly underground, simple or rarely branched, cylindrical trunk. Bears terminal whorls of semi-erect to spreading, pinnate leaves, to 1m long, each with up to 24 oblong or inversely lance-shaped to obovate, stiff, pale green leaflets, later olive-green, with red-brown hairs. Produces felted, red-brown female flower cones, 10-13cm long, usually in summer.
CHIKU
Manilkara zapota Or Chicko Tree a superb shade, street (where falling fruit will not be a problem), or fruit tree, Sopadilla reaches a height of 45 feet with a 40-foot spread. The smooth, dark, and glossy, six-inch-long evergreen leaves are clustered at the tips of twigs and the small, cream-colored solitary flowers appear in the leaf axils throughout the year. The four-inch-wide, scurfy brown fruits have a juicy, sweet, yellow-brown flesh and ripen to softness in spring and summer. The flower-to-fruit period is about ten months. The bark and branches, when injured, bleed a white latex which is the source of chicle, the original base for chewing gum. The trunk on older specimens is flaky and quite attractive, and flares at the base into numerous surface roots.
CHINESE FAN PALM (LIVISTONA CHINENSIS)
Livistona Chinensis or the Chinese fan palm or fountain palm is a species of the subtropical palm tree of east Asia. It is native to southern Japan, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, southeastern China, and Hainan.
Livistona chinensis, Chinese Fan Palm or Fountain Palm is medium-sized palm with an erect, robust trunk swollen at the base, the upper part covered with fibrous leaf bases, at least at first. Glossy, rich green leaves, to 2m long, with shorter, spiny leaf-stalks, are divided for up to two-thirds of their leangth into many linear, pendent segments. Cream flowers are borne in panicles to 1m or more long, usually in summer, followed by ovoid to spherical, glossy, blue-green to grey-pink fruit, 2-2.5cm across.
CLAMANSI CITRUS
Citrus Microcarpa, also known as Calamansi Citrus, is a unique citrus fruit high in antioxidants and vitamin C. It is a great source of nutrients with a distinctive sweet flavor, making it a popular choice for culinary uses.
Orange fruit is an important agricultural product, used for both the juicy fruit pulp and the aromatic peel. Orange blossoms are used in several different ways, as are the leaves and wood of the tree. Calamansi citrus microcarpa fruits are sour and are often used for preserves or cooking. The calamansi bears a small citrus fruit that is used to flavor foods and drinks. Despite its outer appearance and its aroma, the taste of the fruit itself is quite sour, although the peel is sweet. Calamansi marmalade can be made in the same way as orange marmalade. Like other citrus fruits, the calamansi is high in vitamin C.
COCONUT PALM
Cocos nucifera or coconut palm is a large palm with a swollen, tapered base, an often-leaning grey trunk, and pinnate, bright green leaves, 4-6m long, with many linear leaflets. Small, bowl-shaped, fragrant, cream to yellow flowers are borne at intervals throughout the year, followed by ovoid fruit, each with a green to ochre-yellow or orange-red exterior covering a fibrous brown husk. Height 20-30cm, Spread 12m. Native of Coastal tropical region.
CYCAS REVOLUTA (SAGO PALM)
Cycas revoluta Cycad is robust-stemmed cycad, erect at first but gradually relining with age, and suckering and branching when mature. Arching leaves, 0.75-1.5m long, are pinnate, with up to 125 sickle-shaped, glossy, dark green leaflets. Ovoid, woolly, golden brown inflorescences are produced on mature plants but seldom on those grown in containers. The male inflorescences, to 40cm long, are pineapple-scented; females, 20cm long, produce ovoid yellow fruit, 3-4cm long. Height 1-2m or more, Spread1-2m or more. Native of Japan.
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DATE PALM
The Date Palm, Phoenix Dactylifera, is a tree native to the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan. Its fruits are great sources of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin C, potassium, and magnesium. Enjoy its great taste and health benefits in a variety of dishes.
Phoenix dactylifera or Date palm ? is tall, sometimes suckering palm producing a columnar trunk usually clad with old leaf bases, at least towards the top. Leaves, 4-6m long, are composed of many linear, greyish green leaflets, the lowest ones reduced to spines, arranged in various planes giving a 3-dimensional effect. Bowl-shaped cream flowers appear in long-stalked panicles, 1.5-2m long, in spring or summer. Ellipsoid to cylindrical, edible, sweet, fleshy, yellow to reddish brown fruit, 2.5-7cm long, are very variable both in texture and flavor.
EUROPEAN FAN PALM
Tropical beauty, nearly anywhere. That’s what you’ll get with the European Fan Palm Tree. Its long, fan-shaped leaves grow up to 24 inches long and provide dramatic appeal to gives that undeniable tropical look. Stunning in color, the leaves of the European Fan Palm bring various greens, blues, grays and yellows to your landscape.
Chamaerops humilis or European Fan Palm is bushy palm, producing suckers when mature, with broad, pinnate, bluish or greyish green leaves, 60-100cm long, composed of 12-15 linear leaflets. Yellow flowers are borne in dense, almost hidden panicles, to 35cm long, from spring to summer. Height 2-3m, Spread 1-2m. Native of Mediterranean.
FIG TREE
Ficus carica or Fig Tree is deciduous tree or large shrub with a spreading head and rounded, 3- to 5-lobed leaves, 10-24cm long, heart-shaped at the bases. Pear-shaped receptacles develop into single fruit, to 10cm long, green when young, maturing to dark green, purple, or dark brown.