A Foxtail palm is a spectacular palm tree from Queenland, Australia. Foxtail palm can be used in landscapes alone as an accent specimen or in groups with other palm trees and plants. Foxtail palms look incredible good when being planted in rows along costal boulevards, driways and streets.
A Foxtail palm is in a family Arecaceae, Genus-Wodyetia, known as Wodyetia bifurcata.
As hardiness of Foxtail palms, they can be grown in USDA zones 9 to 11.
Tolerance:
Salt tolerance:moderate
Drought tolerance:moderate
Cold tolerance: It is hardy o 27 F.

Mexican Fan Palm

A Mexican fan palm (Washingtonia robusta) is a skyscraper of all the palms. It is extremely tall. This palm draw attention and is a striking sight everywhere. The Mexican palm has a slender trunk and a crown of large fan-shaped fronds. Washingtonia filifera is very drought and salt tolerant once established. It is also very cold hardy.

Pinnate palms

The Coconut palm and Date palm are the most easily recognizable palm trees. The Coconut palm is the universal symbol of the tropics. It is associated with beautiful, white sandy beaches and perfect vacation places. It is also associated with with delicious exotic currys and coconut desserts adn chocolate.
The Date palm is a symbol of fertility, dominance, power and peace.

Palm Tree Varieties

There are thousand of different palm tree varieties in the palm family. They differ by their growth rate, hardiness and other characteristics.

The palm family is known as Palmae or Panamea.There are tropical and cold hardy palm tree varieities. This blog will give you information about common palm tree varities, how to care for palm trees and how to deal with their diseases.