Windmill Palm - Medium Palm Tree - $329.95
Winter resistant, tough as nails, low maintenance, slow growing, drought tolerant, easily adaptable, and awe-inspiring appearance makes it the most versatile palm tree, hands down.
One of the hardiest palms, Chinese windmill palm has single stems with large, 4-foot-wide fans of sword-like leaves. It produces large plumes of yellow flowers in early summer; the flowers of female plants transform into bluish-black fruits.
WINDMILL PALM. China
PALMAE (Palm family)
Leaves like fans, rather smaller than on other fan palms, with slender toothed stalks characterize the windmill palm.
Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei): These palms have a single, slender (1 foot or less in diameter) trunk with fan-shaped leaves similar to the needle palm. Leaves are dark green and can be 2 to 3 feet across.
Windmill palms grown in full sun and/or poor conditions may have a much smaller crown. The trunk is covered with heavy brown fiber and is often narrower at the base than at the top.
Windmill Palm - Trachycarpus
OTHER
There are a few that just don't fit into any single category...
Wagner´s Windmill Palm [English]: Trachycarpus wagnerianus
Wagner's Bladderfern [English]: Cystopteris wagneri
Wagner's Bladderfern [English]: Cystopteris x wagneri
Wagner's Oak [English]: Quercus wagneri ...
Trachycarpus wagnerianus (Dwarf Chusan Palm) - This fan palm is similar in appearance to the Windmill Palm, Trachycarpus fortunei but its overall appearance is more dainty and many think it the best Trachycarpus for general cultivation.
Windmill palm is one of the most cold hardy palms available. It is beautifully compact and grows to heights of 20-40 ft (6.1-12.2 m).
Fortunei, also known as Chusan or Windmill palm, is an unbranched, single-stemmed, evergreen palms with fan-shaped, dark green leaves. Produces small yellow flowers in large, pendent panicles. Female plants produce spherical, blue-black fruit.
Trachycarpus fortunei (Windmill Palm, Chusan Palm)
Trachycarpus latisectus (Windamere Palm)
Trachycarpus martianus
Trachycarpus excelsa synonym of Rhapis excelsa (Lady Palm)
Trachycarpus sikkimensis synonym of Trachycarpus latisectus (Windamere Palm) ...
Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei)
Windowleaf (Monstera deliciosa)
Wine Cups (Callirhoe involucrata)
Winged Euonymus (Euonymus alata)
Winged Spindle Tree (Euonymus alata)
Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) ...
Great candidates for this are Trachycarpus fortunei (Windmill Palm), Rhapidophyllum hystrix (Needle Palm), and Sabal minor (Dwarf Palmetto).
Windmill Palm with its large fan-shaped leaves will create a tropical landscape. Slow growing and hardy.
Yucca gloriosa has thick grey, spiky leaves in a mound that is topped in a hot summer by a 2m (61/2ft) spire of cream bell-shaped flowers.
 See also: Trachycarpus, Trachycarpus fortunei, Green, Palm, May
  
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