Palm Trees

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is used to make foodstuffs, medicines, woven material and wine. The palm is planted in large-scale plantations throughout the tropics countries because it is used in commercial products like oil, soap, cosmetics, skin care products, medicine and margarine.

A Windmill palm is one of the most hardy palm trees in the world. The brown fibers on the trunk keep it warm. The palm is easy to grow and requires low mainenance.A Windmill palm is a great specimen for northern landscapes.The palm is great for containers.

When a female Cycas revoluta is pollinated with pollen from the male cone, it produces viable seeds which can be used for growing new sago palms. Be very patient, sago palms develop seeds very slowly.

A Cycas revoluta can be grown from suckers of the mother plant. Tis is a natural process for the Sago palm ad it will not hurt it.

A sago palm is a popular landscape plant from the family Cycadaceae. It has a stout, rugged trunk topped with feather-like, fern-like leaves. It is a cone bearing plant. A Sago palm (Cycas Revoluta) is either a male or female. They have different reproductive cones. A male plant shows a yellow long corn cob and a female produces a yellow circular cabbage flower.