Sainte-Luce Palm

This palm thrives on neglect. I accidently left mine in a 3 gallon pot sitting on white sand soil in SW Florida and forgot about it for 5...Read More years - never any irrigation. It grew roots through the drain holes in the pot and is now thriving still in the same pot. No seeds yet but looking forward to having some. It is definitely tolerant of alkaline soil and drought.

I have 2 of these in 5 gal.'s that are doing great. I got them as 1 gal. 's from floribunda 6 months ago and they are doing great. Both o...Read Moref them have opened a new leaf since and are about to open another frond any day!

Sought after specimen solitary palm that is very slow growing in Southern California and a bit marginal in most areas. It develops a col...Read Moreorful pale green crownshaft with white dusting on it, that has some angularity to it, along with strongly recurved leaves and a narrow, ornamentally ringed trunk, also with some white dusting on it. Very rare plant and probably extremely endangered in its native Madagascar. I have tried this plant several times in Thousand Oaks (zone 9b) (of course starting out as a 1-2 leaf seedling since that's all that's available) and it's croaked both times... cold problems I think. Have since tried much larger seedlngs (available from Hawaii fairly regularly now) and doing well in zone 10a, southern California... though not impressed by their speed (or lack of it). Seedlings have markedly glaucous leaves on the underside- an added ornamental touch.