Wedding Palm - Live Plant in a 3 Gallon Growers Pot - Lytocaryum Weddellianum - Extremely Rare Ornamental Palms of Florida

Grown, packaged and shipped exclusively by Wekiva Foliage. Lytocaryum Weddellianum Wedding Palm is a relatively small specimen, only reaching a height of 6 feet tall, making it a great potted houseplant. The trunk is fairly slender, around 2 in diameter. And its dark green, feather-like leaves can grow up to 35 long. A distant cousin of the Coconut Palm, Lytocaryum Weddellianum Wedding Palm produces small, coconut-like, edible fruit after flowering. Lytocaryum weddellianum is commonly used as an indoor palm. It rarely grows grows taller than 1m 3.3 feet or so, with 60cm 24 inch spread. Young plant are generally bought when they are only 22-30cm 9-12 inch high, with three or four 20-25cm 8-10 inch long fronds. As the plant age, the fronds lengthen and broaden; they can eventually become about 90cm 35 inch long and 22cm 9 inch wide. Lytocaryum weddellianum will live for many years, especially if it is kept in a well-lit position. It is an easy to care palm. It is somewhat cold tolerant, needs shade, does very very well as a containerized palm, requires rich well drained soil, and frequent watering. In Europe it is frequently used as an indoor palm. Unaccountably rare, most beautiful of all small palms, Lytocaryum weddellianum, is also called the "miniature coconut". It is closely related to the coconut palm, but is much smaller and more cold tolerant, taking down to about 25 F.