Miniature Chusan Palm Tree
The Miniature Chusan Palm Tree, scientific name Trachycarpus wagnerianus, is a great palm for indoors or outdoors because of its durability and cold hardiness that makes it perfect for landscape in USDA zones 7-11. It is also requires no maintenance and is disease free. The Miniature Chusan Palm is also known as Wagner’s Windmill Palm, Waggie Palm, and Waggie. It has a lot of similar characteristics to the Windmill Palm. It is native to central and eastern China.
Growth Rate: Slow
Height: up to 15 – 20ft
Light Req: full sun to partial shade
Water Req: moderate
Cold Tolerance: down to 5F
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Miniature Chusan Palm Description
Trachycarpus wagnerianus is a medium size palm that can grow up to 20ft tall and 7ft wide. It grows slow at first but after 3-4 years explodes in growth. It has single brown trunk 8-14 inches in diameter, covered in leaf base fibers.
Leaves are round, stiff, deeply-cut, dark green. They are relatively small, about 2ft in diameter, born on 2-3ft long petioles which gives the palm a more compact look. The leaves of younger Miniature Chusan Palm are nearly circular, but get hemispherical as the leaves get older.
The Miniature Chusan Palm produces small yellow flowers. Flowers are dioecious, male and female flowers are born on separate plants. Fruits are not edible and are oblong in shape. They turn purple black when ripe.
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Growing Miniature Chusan Palm
Miniature Chusan Palm is very hardy palm that can tolerate cold down to 5F. Grows well especially in rich, moist soil. This palm enjoys full sun to partial shade. It is a slow grower, and is adapted both for containers or gardens, making it the ideal choice for the tropical look with no worries of freezing cold temperatures. It is very low maintenance palm that can grow indoors or outdoors.
If you don’t live in the warm climate and still want to have beautiful palm trees in you backyard, get this book “Betrock’s Cold Hardy Palms.”
Miniature Chusan Palm Propagation
Propagated by seeds.
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