- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Rhapis excelsa
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Arecaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Finger palm, Bamboo palm, Needle palm.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- March – April.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Southern China to Vietnam.
- 💡 Status
- Not Evaluated.
Description: Small evergreen palm, with slender bamboo-like stem. Leaves fan-shaped, dark green, glossy, divided into broad ribbed segments. Leaflets with jagged tips. Flowers cream-coloured, in short compound spadix. Fruit drupe, white when ripe.
Uses: Usually planted in gardens.