COCCOTHRINAX CRINITA THE OLD MAN PALM

MEDIUM SIZED TROPICAL SUN PALM
PLANTS AVAILABLE WITH A FOOT OR TWO OF HAIRY TRUNK

The palm species shown here is Coccothrinax crinita. It is native to Cuba. It gets the name “Old Man Palm” because the trunk is totally covered by long tan hairs that hang down like a beard. For anyone who has grown one of the Old Man Palms, the one thing you’ll agree on is how slow they are. The squat 15 gallon plant shown here typically take about ten to twelve years to produce this size. Seedlings take about 4 years to produce a fan leaf. One suffers through “blades of grass” for four years before palmate leaves appear. The plants below are older in that their showing a foot or two of their hairy trunks. These are near impossible to find and always expensive this size. This is a dwarf species, unlikely to get over ten feet. It loves sun and heat and is cold hardy somewhere between the mid to low 20’s F. And, by the way, those fibers/hairs covering the trunk are its hallmark. We only have a handful of this size.

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