The home palm has a very beautiful appearance and is able to decorate any room. She is very popular precisely because of aesthetic characteristics. In order for the plant to please the amateur gardener for a long time, proper care is necessary for it.
Advantages and disadvantages of palm trees
Growing these plants has its advantages:
- unpretentious, adapt perfectly to room conditions;
- have an exotic look and are able to turn the home into a real tropical forest;
- purify indoor air.
Palm tree trachicarpus
There are some drawbacks to the considered indoor flowers. So, some of them do not tolerate high humidity and are finicky in sunlight. Large copies will not fit in small rooms.
Important! Some palm trees are dioecious. Lady trees may have a different color.
Popular types of home palm trees
There are a large number of varieties of home palm trees. All of them take pride of place among amateur gardeners.
Trachicarpus Fortune
Trachycarpus fortunei is a branchy, beautiful plant that will remind you of a southern vacation even on the coldest winter evenings. Has large leaves.
This palm tree flower is unpretentious in leaving. It must be protected from scorching rays in the afternoon hours. The morning and evening sun beneficially affects the health of the plant. It tolerates shading well.
Advice! When watering, you need to make sure that water does not fall on the trunk.
Fan palm
This Chinese plant has luxurious leaves, on the back of which there is a small waxy coating. One sheet can reach 60 cm in diameter. Perfectly assimilates in offices, conservatories and greenhouses.
The fan palm needs good lighting, so it should be placed near the southern windows. In summer, the plant can be taken out to the balcony.
Fan palm
Bamboo palm
The plant grows to 1.8 m. It is distinguished by the presence of cirrus leaves, a bare trunk, on which there are internodes. Bamboo palm prefers shaded areas, it is best to put it at the western or eastern windows.
Note! This species requires heat in the winter, otherwise it can get sick.
Bamboo palm
Rapis
This is a spectacular plant, which is ideal for small rooms. Rapis is unpretentious, it can be grown by both professionals and beginner growers. The palm is very photophilous. In order for her to have a beautiful crown, she needs to be turned from time to time.
The plant feels great at room temperature. In the summer, if there is such an opportunity, you need to take it outside. In winter, it is necessary to provide more comfortable conditions.
Rapis
Chamerops
This is a short and multi-stemmed plant. Although it grows in room conditions only up to one and a half meters, it should be noted that it needs a lot of space.
Note! A plant may have several trunks that grow in width. Each barrel, in turn, has a thick hat.
The leaves reach half a meter in diameter. On the petioles are small curved thorns. Grows in sunny places. The palm is undemanding to temperature conditions. In winter, it should be in a cooler room so that the leaves do not dry out.
Chamerops
Butia
The plant has fairly hard leaves up to 4 m in length. Each of them has narrow segments. The lower leaves turn yellow as they grow, fall off, hemp forms in their place. Then they also fall off, leaving scars on the trunk.
Butia blooms in early summer. The flowers are light red. Of these, fragrant edible fruits ripen in autumn. It is interesting that you can make liquor and jam from them, as well as great jelly. The plant is undemanding to lighting and temperature conditions.
Butia
Zamia
This is a low palm with leathery, glossy, feathery leaves in the form of an oval. On them you can see the veins. It has male and female leaves. At home, zamia grows very slowly and blooms extremely rarely.
Zamia loves a bright sunny color. On a hot afternoon, it must be shaded and periodically turned over. Very thermophilic, she needs to provide a high temperature of up to 28 degrees. In winter, the air in the room should be cool. There are no special requirements for humidity.
Zamia
Lykuala
This plant is a rare dwarf palm. In this case, the leaves reach a huge width. Has a thin trunk. Likual abundantly bears fruit, although in indoor conditions this phenomenon is very rare.
Lykuala needs bright sunlight. The temperature should be uniform, without sudden changes. At elevated temperatures, watering should be intense.
Lykuala
Kentia
At home, Kentia reaches 2 m in height and almost never blooms. The leaves are dark green, reaching 2.5 m in length. It grows with one trunk.
The plant loves bright sunlight, so it is best to place it near the south window. The trunk can be bent, so its top is placed inside the room.
Kentia
Hamedorea
The plant Hamedorea unpretentious, sensitive to water shortages. Requires a constant level of humidity. Leaves reach 60 cm in length. It grows slowly, gives only 2 or 3 branches during the year. This plant from the Palm family blooms at the beginning of its life.
Hamedorea
Gomuti
This plant is interesting in that it gives tasty juicy fruits. To grow them is quite possible at home. A palm tree in a pot does not like cold, but it can not be placed near heating appliances. Under favorable conditions, Gomuti can grow up to 2 m.
Gomuti in the wild
Brachea
This ornamental palm tree has bluish-gray leaves. It can often bloom, during flowering, the number of inflorescences can reach 100 or even more.
This squat plant needs to be protected from scorching rays. Turn the pot from time to time to evenly form the crown.
Brachea
Palm-like plants
There are plants that are mistakenly ranked as Palm.
Castor oil
It is very similar to a palm tree, with wide capitate maple leaves. It is an annual plant, growing in nature up to 2-4 m. Castor oil has large leaves up to 80 cm in length. It is used in garden and indoor floriculture.
Banana palm
In fact, a banana palm is not a tree, but grass. At home, grown from seeds or appendix.
Note! These trees do not adapt well to new conditions and transplants. To grow them, it is better to purchase a small shoot.
These types of indoor palm trees grow in good light and frequent watering in the summer.
Fig palm
This plant has another name fig. Indoor can be grown from seed. Mistakenly called a palm tree due to large leaves.
Figs in the wild
Broad leafed plants
Due to the large size of the wide leaves, these plants are erroneously reckoned with palm trees:
- Dieffenbachia looks spectacular, reaches a two-meter height in a few years. It features beautiful and variegated leaves. As a houseplant, Dieffenbachia does not grow.
- Yucca is a decorative palm bush, characterized by unusual beauty and compactness. Unpretentious in leaving. Flowering is rare.
Narrow leaf plants
There are indoor plants with thin leaves that look like a palm tree:
- The drooping cicas is not a palm, although it grows to 1.5 m. It has a number of long, hard and bright leaves. They are on the thick top, which makes the plant look like a palm tree.
- Curled cicas is a palm-like flower that has a large number of leaf plates, each of which can reach 25 cm. The central trunk grows to 2 m.
- Bokarneya - a flower, like a palm tree, unpretentious to temperature extremes. It has a thick layer, expanding below. Above are lush ribbon-like leaves.
- Dracaena is a lush shrub up to 40 cm high. The height and width of the crown can be adjusted independently. For full growth, sufficient lighting is necessary.
Dracaena
Typical Recommended Containment Procedures
In order for indoor palm plants to please the eye for a long time, it is necessary to provide such care conditions for them:
- maintain water permeability of the soil: after irrigation, excess water should immediately flow out through the drainage hole;
- care for a transplant: it must be carried out with the preservation of a land coma;
- to water with soft water (its health depends on what water the plant will be watered);
- maintain high humidity;
- periodically trim;
- carry out foliar top dressing;
- timely treat diseases.
If all the requirements are met, palm varieties will feel great at home.
Outdoor plants
Only frost-resistant palm trees are suitable for outdoor cultivation. Trachicarpus fortune is best suited for this.
Attention! In frosty times, the plant needs shelter.
Other types of indoor flowers of palm trees, due to their thermophilicity, can only be carried outside during the warm season. When the days are warm days, you need to put the plant in normal conditions.
Indoor palm - a beautiful ornamental plant that can decorate any room. Typical care for all types of domestic palm trees is simple, which allows them to grow even for beginner growers.
