This interesting drought tolerant plant is native to Mexico and likes full hot sun. In gardens, I’ve seen a few older plants with a few feet of trunk. But, this species can actually get a trunk that is six or eight feet tall in fifty or a hundred years. The crown of needle like leaves is about eight feet across mature. Each leaf is about the size of a knitting needle and four to six feet long. They come to a point but are flexible and not very dangerous except perhaps to one’s eye. The plant looks like a “Pom Pom on a Trunk”. Leaf color is blue to blue green. Cold tolerance is into the teens F.
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Phil Bergman runs a nursery in San Diego County, Jungle Music. He writes articles on all sorts of palm, cycad, and tropical plants.
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