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Growing to 12–20 ft (4–6 m) tall, Trachycarpus fortunei is a single-stemmed fan palm.The diameter of the trunk is up to 15–30 in (38–76 cm). Its texture is very rough, with the persistent leaf bases clasping the stem as layers of coarse dark grey-brown fibrous material.
Trachycarpus is a genus of ten species of palms native to Asia, from the Himalaya east to eastern China.They are fan palms (subfamily Coryphoideae), with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets.
Trachycarpus fortunei 'Wagnerianus' is unknown in the wild, but may have originated in cultivation in Japan, where it was first discovered by the horticulturalist Albert Wagner of Leipzig, Germany in the second half of the 19th century (in 1873). Wagner made several collecting trips to Japan and China in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century (as ...
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Trachycarpeae is a tribe of palms in subfamily Coryphoideae of the plant family Arecaceae. [1] [2] It has the widest distribution of any tribe in Coryphoideae and is found on all continents (except Antarctica), though the greatest concentration of species is in Southeast Asia. [3]
Few palms tolerate severe cold and the majority of the species are tropical or subtropical. The three most cold-tolerant species are Trachycarpus fortunei, native to eastern Asia, and Rhapidophyllum hystrix and Sabal minor, both native to the southeastern United States.
Hardy palms are any of the species of palm that are able to withstand brief periods of colder temperatures and even occasional snowfall.A few palms are native to higher elevations of South Asia where true winter conditions occur, while a few others are native to the warmer parts of the temperate zone in southern Europe, and others are native throughout temperate and subtropical locales in the ...
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