FOXTAIL PALM

Description:

Flowering: White flowers stalk that comes from the base of the crownshaft.

Foliage: Variance of greenish colors; deep green to light green colors. Received its more commonly known Australian-English name from the appearance of its foliage, which is in a shape of a fox’s tail.

Fruits: 2 inches long. Olive green to green in the early stages. Orange red when ripe.

Trunk: Similar to the king palm, the foxtail palm trunk is smooth, thin, and self-cleaning. It grows a single, double, or triple trunk that is slightly spindle-shaped to columnar reaching
heights of about 10 m (30 ft). The trunk also has a closely ringed, dark grey to light gray color which slowly turns more and more white. The crown shaft of the foxtail palm is light
to bright green and slightly swollen at the base

Importance: Cultivated for its trunk and foliage.

Note: After it became known to the world, the Foxtail Palm seeds were so highly sought after that a thriving black market trade formed, with illegal collectors nearly decimating the in situ populations. 

The species propagates readily in cultivation and this ultimately reduced the pressure on the wild population. It has become widely distributed across the world, being progressively planted out as one of the & worlds most popular palms