"Washingtonia filifera "
California fan palm, cotton palm

 

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Summer. Very small flowers in inflorescences until 5 m long, hanging .Leaves reaching till two meters. They possess many segments covered with cottony threads what determines that in their origin place (Arizona and California) this palm is known as " Cotton palm" The axis of the leaf is covered with thorns, and it possesses a very long petiole. Dead leaves hang of the plant giving it a characteristic aspect. Black fruits in berry. It can attain 18 m.
 
 
Water it scarcely. It is a plant that comes from a very dry climate.
  
 
Square or avenue plant . Very appropriate for the ornamental value of its upright and strong trunk as well as the feather of dead leaves hanging down . It adapts very well in places of dry and hot climate.
  
 
Sun, it needs a warm climate.
  
   
By means of seeds in spring.
  
 
It adapts to all type of soil, even poor. It doesn't tolerate the flooding.
  

All species of " Washingtonia"

 

 

Washingtonia robusta ----------------- Mexican fan palm, Mexican Washingtoniana palm

 

 

 

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