Chinese Fan Palm

This hardy palm makes a good houseplant and needs little care. Place it into a sunny location of your house and water it regularly as this one is a bit thirsty plant. Now lets have a look at some of the details about it.

These palms can easily be propagated from seeds.

Once your Chinese fan palm is big enough to give fruit, you can propagate it. It has a berry-like fruit which is less than 0.5 inches in length. Each fruit has a seed. Just take this fruit of, place the fruit in water for a couple of days so that it will be easy for you to remove the edible part to free the seed. If you still can't pull the fruit off of the seed, soak them into the warm water for 24 to 48 hours more. Once you have the seed, make sure to wipe all the fruit particles away from it, or else the chances are quite strong that fungi will affect it.

Now you can germinate these seeds either in zip-lock bags or in small pots with soil. Let me tell you how.

fill the bags with dampened growing media and place palm seeds in it and the seeds will germinate. If you instead choose to place them in soil then make sure you keep the soil damp to allow the growth.

Their scientific name is Livistona Chinensis which is pronounced as liv-iss-TOE-nuh chih-NEN-sis.

These trees belong to the family Arecaceae.

Can reach a height of 30 to 50 feet and can spread up to 10 to 12 feet.

Although a hardy plant which can thrive almost anywhere, the Chinese fan palm grows best in sunny locations to locations partial shade. Young specimens should be placed in partial shade.

Water it regularly.

Its fruit is used in Chinese medicine as anti cancerous element.