European Fan Palm

Cold Hary Palm Tree


Euroupean Fan Palm
(Chamaerops humilis)

Cold Hardy Palm


Beautiful, cold hardy and drought resistant, the Mediterranean, European Fan Palm, is ideal for commercial or residental landscapes.  With multiple trunks and triangular fan shapped leaves, that range from green, blue-green to gray green the European Fan Palm is often used as a single focus point with a tropical feeling.  When planted togehter, the European Fan Palm makes a great barrier and creates a private tropical environment.

The European Fan Palm grows up to 15 feet in overall height and is gaining popularity as a replacement to the less cold hardy Pigmy Date Palm or Roebelini.  The European Fan Palm is a cold hardy palm and can survive to temperatures in the low teens overnight.    
 

Cold Hardy Palm, European Fan Palm

European Fan Palm

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The European Fan Palm is ideal for planters and is used extensively hotel pool areas and decks.  The European Fan Palm is both drought resistant and salt resistant and withstands cold temperatures remaining green all year around. 

European Fan Palm

Typical Height: 10' 

Subfamily: Coryphoideae 

Tribe: Coryphoideae

Hardiness Zone:8-11

Growth rate: Slow

Origin: Mediterranean region

Salt Tolerance: high

Drought Tolerence: high

Soil Requirements: Widely adaptable

Light Requirements: Moderate, High

Nutritional Requirements: Moderate

Propagation: Seed, germinating in 2-3 months.

Human Hazards: spiny

Major pest Problems: Scales, palm aphid, ambrosia

Major Disease or Physiological Problems: Possassium deficiency, ganoderma, fungal leaf spots.

The European Fan Palm is ideal as a replacemant for the less cold hardy Pigmy Date Palm or Roebelennii.    
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