Brahea armata ‘Clara’

Brahea armata
Photo: Irene (iNaturalist user: aparrot1; white balance and color correction by Seth Cosa, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

About the species

Brahea armata

Brahea armata, commonly known as the blue fan palm, blue hesper palm, or Mexican blue palm, is a flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, native to Baja California, Mexico. It typically grows 35–50 feet tall and 1.5–2 feet wide, with a stout trunk, and rigid silver-blue palmate fronds. As a member of subgenus Erythea, it is distinguished by distinctly armed petioles with recurved teeth.

From Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Describes the species as a whole, not this cultivar.

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