Trachycarpus fortunei
Windmill Palm
- Type
- Palm
- Hardiness
- USDA Zones 7–10
- Mature size
- Height 18–25 Feet · Spread 6–8 Feet
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Seasonality
- Evergreen
This variety is no actively in production in our propagation house and may not return to our catalogue. We maintain this page purely for reference and archival purposes. If you would like to grow this plant, tell us. Your interest helps guide what we bring back.
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Trachycarpus fortunei, the Windmill Palm, is the palm most often seen farthest north, a fan palm native to the hills of central China and grown around the temperate world, from the British Isles to coastal British Columbia. The slender trunk, wrapped in a shag of coarse black fiber, climbs to fifteen or twenty feet beneath a crown of neat, rounded fans. Good specimens stand outdoors in Maryland and Tennessee, though the palm sulks in the heat of peninsular Florida and is happier in the upper South than the lower.
Woodlanders offered the Windmill Palm for many years as the easy answer for gardeners at the cold edge of palm country. Plant in well-drained soil with shelter from north wind where hardiness is borderline. A reference listing for a palm we have grown and offered.
inflorescence: bracts on peduncle, paniculate, flowers in clusters. male, female, and bisexual flowers