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Trachycarpus fortunei
''Trachycarpus fortunei'', the Chinese windmill palm, windmill palm or Chusan palm, is a species of hardy evergreen palm tree in the family Arecaceae, native to parts of China, Japan, Myanmar and India.
Description
Growing to tall, ''Trachyca ...
'' 'Wagnerianus' is unknown in the wild, but may have originated in cultivation in Japan
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, where it was first discovered by the horticulturalist Albert Wagner of Leipzig, Germany
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in the second half of the 19th century (in 1873). Wagner made several collecting trips to Japan and China in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century (as well as frequent trips to the Caribbean and South America.) He had a flourishing business growing palms in his steam-heated greenhouses in northern Germany. It has remained in comparative obscurity until recently, when its qualities as a garden plant were at last realized.
Description
''Trachycarpus'' 'Wagnerianus' is an easily identified cultivar, with small, stiff leaves (much unlike that of ''Trachycarpus fortunei
''Trachycarpus fortunei'', the Chinese windmill palm, windmill palm or Chusan palm, is a species of hardy evergreen palm tree in the family Arecaceae, native to parts of China, Japan, Myanmar and India.
Description
Growing to tall, ''Trachyca ...
''). The leaves of younger are nearly circular, but those of older plants tend to be hemispherical. At all ages they are relatively small, from wide. and are borne on petioles.
The leaf crown is hemispherical and often extended, especially in younger individuals. New growth is margined with a short but dense white woolly tomentum.Robert Lee Riffle & Paul Craft. ''An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms''.
The palm's trunk grows to tall, or more sometimes, and is in diameter, when free of the leaf base fibers that tend to remain for a good while.
See also
*Hardy palms
Hardy palms are any of the species of palm (Arecaceae) that are able to withstand ''brief'' periods of colder temperatures and even occasional snowfall. A few palms are native to higher elevations of south Asia where true winter conditions occu ...
References
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