Butia purpurascens

Butia purpurascens – Purple Yatay palm

This Butia purpurascens is very hard to find in habitat. So find true purpurascens seeds and germinating them is even more a challenge! Gilian Plants can proudly say that he has some real purle yatay palm seedlings for cultivation in Europe! This spieces needs a warm spot. In Europe is the best way to keep them in a container in tropical climates. The palm don’t produce any spines on the leave stalk. This is the only butia spieces without spines petiole. The leaves are bluish/grey to green. The seeds are small and long. An Butia unknow in cultivation. The flowers and fruits has a beautifull purple color. This slender palm tree grow very slow.

We are expert in germinating special rare Butia and Syagrus seeds. Gilian Plants has own import from Brasil with own collectors in habitat there. So Gilian Plants provide you the real deal. Every year has Gilian Plants new spieces in some bulk wholesale quantities.

– price is for one seedling.

• Plant location: full sun
• Plant care: difficult
• Watering: keep young plants more dry.
• Cold hardy: no keep them not low as 5 degrees.
• Land of orgin: Brasil