Trachycarpus princeps

Trachycarpus princeps – Blue Silver Stone Gate Palm

A populair spieces in Europe with hard stiff blue silver leaves. The Trachycarpus princeps is frost hardy and makes 4-5 leaves a year. Much slower than a Trachycarpus fortunei when they are young. But people select and choosing them for their very blueish and with underside leaves. Plant care is easy for this spieces but takes years for getting size from a seedling. A perfect plant for a small garden of container plant. Speed of growth once in the ground it can grow more than 30 cm (1 ft.) of trunk per year when they are bigger than one meters tall! Small plants starting slow. The Trachycarpus princeps is one or the best looking palms for your tropical garden. We protect our Trachycarpus princeps by frost minus -13 by long periodes cold freezing days. It is an endangered spieces from the area Stone Gate in China. The seeds germinate slowly and can takes 2 years (!) This is so far the most ornamental Trachycarpus spieces in the family.

We have this Trachycarpus princeps seeds from as one of the first from trees in The Netherlands!. Pollinated by hand. We have each year a big stock with over 5000 seedlings. We always seaching more Trachycarpus spieces eeds. Please contact us when you have Trachycarpus seeds for sale.

• Plant location: full sun / half shadow 
• Watering: medium
• Frost hardy: yes -15 degrees
• Land of orgin: China, Stone Gate