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Cuban Belly Palm – Live Plant in a 2 Inch Growers Pot – Acrocomia Crispa – Starter Palm – Extremely Rare Palms from Florida
Original price was: $163.77.$81.89Current price is: $81.89.
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- Grown, Packaged and Shipped exclusively by Wekiva Foliage. The Cuban Belly Palm Tree, scientific name Acrocomia crispa, is one of the most beautiful palm trees in the world. This Cuban native palm is very drought tolerant, and tolerant of alkaline soils.
- Scientific name: Acrocomia crispa. Other scientific names are: Gastrococos crispa, Cocos crispa, Astrocaryum crispum, Gastrococos armentalis, Acrocomia armentalisare.
- It has a single gray trunk that is thin at the base and is swollen in the middle, hence its common name Cuban Belly Palm. The trunk is about 1ft in diameter when mature, rigged with old leaf scars, covered with black thorns except the oldest part and topped by a crown of pinnate, or feather-like, arching fronds that are about 10 ft long and 5ft wide. Leaves are dark green above and, silver green below.
- This palm can slowly grow up to 30 40 ft tall and 10-15ft wide. This palm is cold hardy and can tolerate cold down to 25F. It is great for growing in USDA Zones 9b (25 to 30 F) to 11 (above 40 F).
- In the summer it produces small yellow flowers. Both male and female flowers grow on the same thorny inflorescence. Flowers are followed by orange fruits that are about 1 in in diameter.
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