Pritchardia hillebrandii, or Loulu Lelo (Hawaiian Molokai Fan Palm)
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NZ$320.00
NZ$320.00
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Pritchardia hillebrandii is an absolutely stunning Fan Palm.
Some Pritchardia are fussy and difficult to grow outside the tropics, frequently suffering from a yellowing of the leaves. The moderately sized P. hillebrandii, which grows in dry forest near sea level on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai, is a very different prospect. It is moderately fast growing, very modest in its requirements, and its beautiful, rigid, and leathery leaves with a blue gray cast retain their colour.
With broad, fan-shaped leaves with silvery undersides, P. hillebrandii flowers in a beautiful golden yellow, followed by black, marble-sized fruit. These fruits can be peeled and eaten (tastes somewhat like a coconut), and were once a source of food for early Hawaiians.
Pritchardia hillebrandii is suitable for a wide range of climates and will even tolerate cool conditions and a little frost.
This species is excellent for landscape design and also as an indoor specimen.
These palms are bag grown from seed and hardened off outside through summer and winter.
RARELY AVAILABLE
Height approx. 1.8 metres from the bottom of the bag to the top of the palm fronds - in 25 litre easy lift bags.
These will take off once they are in the ground.
Protect from frost and strong wind while in juvenile state.
Photo sample is of actual stock.
PLEASE NOTE - Buyer must pick up from Whitianga, as these palms are too large to ship safely. We do come through to Auckland and Hamilton on a regular basis and can drop off these palms to you if you are in these locations and don't mind waiting.
Some Pritchardia are fussy and difficult to grow outside the tropics, frequently suffering from a yellowing of the leaves. The moderately sized P. hillebrandii, which grows in dry forest near sea level on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai, is a very different prospect. It is moderately fast growing, very modest in its requirements, and its beautiful, rigid, and leathery leaves with a blue gray cast retain their colour.
With broad, fan-shaped leaves with silvery undersides, P. hillebrandii flowers in a beautiful golden yellow, followed by black, marble-sized fruit. These fruits can be peeled and eaten (tastes somewhat like a coconut), and were once a source of food for early Hawaiians.
Pritchardia hillebrandii is suitable for a wide range of climates and will even tolerate cool conditions and a little frost.
This species is excellent for landscape design and also as an indoor specimen.
These palms are bag grown from seed and hardened off outside through summer and winter.
RARELY AVAILABLE
Height approx. 1.8 metres from the bottom of the bag to the top of the palm fronds - in 25 litre easy lift bags.
These will take off once they are in the ground.
Protect from frost and strong wind while in juvenile state.
Photo sample is of actual stock.
PLEASE NOTE - Buyer must pick up from Whitianga, as these palms are too large to ship safely. We do come through to Auckland and Hamilton on a regular basis and can drop off these palms to you if you are in these locations and don't mind waiting.