Family: Arecaceae    Palm Tree

Common Name: None known

Cold Hardiness Zone: 9a     View the UK and US zone maps

Trachycarpus ravenii Information

Identification

A new species of Trachycarpus from Kasi district, Vientiane province i central Laos. Morphologically, it is closest to T. oreophilus and T. princeps, but differs by having a shorter stem of mature plants; glabrous, dull green petiole; almost circular leaf blade, waxy bluish–white abaxially; narrow leaf segments with narrow free lobes densely adpressed to each other, as well as in oblique-round apices of median leaf segments.

Species information currently being revised.

Distribution

Distribution information currently being revised.