Chamaerops humilis

Bushy palms, up to 2-3 m tall, 1-2 m wide, also short stem when old; forming suckers, slow-growing.

Mono- or dioecious, dense, yellow panicles, almost hidden inflorescences, up to 35 cm long, spring.

Yellow, later reddish brown, round to ovoid berries, 1-3 cm long, unpalatable.

Evergreen, terminal, fanned out, 10-20, lanceolate, pointedly pinnate, up to 80 cm long, bluish to greyish green, thorny teeth on the margin of the petiole, buds edible.

Sun to shade, protected, always frost hardy, very frost hardy in its natural habitat.

Well drained, moderately nutritious, sandy-loamy, dry soil, also poor soil but slow-growing there.

Zone 9