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Best looking Indoor palms?

12 years ago

I love palms and I was wondering what the best looking indoor palms would be? I have a magesty palm, a coconut palm, and some foxtail seeds that sould sprout sometime. Any thers that look amazing inside? Thanks! Also, any other tropicals that have a trunk that look great inside? I have a yucca cane. Thanks!!

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statenislandpalm7a
12 years ago
Kenita palms, dracenea, lady palms, Parlor palms, cordyline
tropicalzone7
12 years ago
I love rhapis (lady palms). They are very expensive because of their slow growth, but they will thrive indoors! Parlor palms are another favorite of mine, especially since it does make a nice sized trunk indoors (the trunk is thin, but it has rings which definitely adds to the tropical effect). Kentias are also great, but they are very expensive. I also like trachycarpus and livistonia indoors. Both can get a nice trunk indoors (especially trachycarpus) and they are pretty cheap palms too (livistonia is very easy to find by you).
Good luck!
-Alex
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I agree with tropicbreeze and njoasis, my vote is for lady palms (Rhapis sp.) or chams. Both are great indoor palms for low light conditions and can also take bright light indoors. Rhapis are one of my favorites and can be tough to find depending on your area, solitary chams might also be hard to find, there are many species and many are suckering. Rhapis sucker too but are very elegant and the trunks are visible. Forget yuccas, they need full sun period, though cordylines might work. A tree fern might be a good option too. Regarding the list you proposed, the only one i think would be suitable for the conditions would be a sago. The others would suffer severely from lack of light, your light conditions don't sound ideal. A western exposure will get very little sunlight in the winter, especially if you don't have it directly in front of the window. A sago can take low light and will be exceptionally slow in those conditions so buy big, but they can pinch you if you bump into it. Kentias would work too, but I think they would be much to big for a bathroom.
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12 years ago
Rhapsis and Kentias are very attractive indoors and are both tolerant of bright but not necessarily direct sun. And while they may be more costly initially, consider that once you buy one of these, they tend to hang around--for years. I've spend much more on the endless secession of Majesty palms. Also great indoors is the Pygmy Date. In fact, it's one of the few palms that will actually look like a mini palm tree as it develops a decent truck at a smaller size. Chamaedoreas are also great indoors. I would also suggest Spindle Palm, Bottle palm and Triangle Palms--especially like the Spindle among these three.--The Spindle reminds me of Coconut palms but are much easier inside to grow--but they are BIG growers. You might also try Fishtails (Caryota)--they also do well for me. Happy planting!

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