Elevate your garden with a tropical twist this summer, as this large Mexican fan palm tree has had its price slashed by a ...

Because Washingtonia robusta grows too tall and too quickly for the everyday backyard setting, this particular species does not belong in an average-size residential garden, ...

Today, the Washingtonia filifera is one of the most widely grown ornamental palms. They love the sun and they are wind-tolerant and cold hardy. They grow at a moderate rate and adapt to most soils.

The most common was the Washingtonia robusta, or Mexican fan palm. Many of the original palms planted in the 1930s are still around. A fan palm can grow to 100 feet and live for hundreds of years.

The iconic Hollywood tree is known as Mexican or needle palm (Washingtonia robusta). A skinny trunk that may reach 80 feet in height is topped with an inelegant mophead of tattered fronds.

The palms, Washingtonia filifera and Washingtonia robusta, are distinctive and to naturally designate, name the place. Names can be arbitrary or fanciful. It’s hard to know why some names stick ...

Washingtonia filifera. Uses. North America (United States, southwestern area): The pith, a spongy tissue, occupying the center of the fan palm tree. was sometimes eaten as a famine food. by ...

But the love story between Washingtonia and Casablanca has a sad ending. In early February, the mayor's office announced that this monocotyledonous plant – palm trees aren't actually trees ...