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California fan palm
Washingtonia filifera
About
Washingtonia filifera, commonly known as the California fan palm, cotton palm or desert fan palm, is a flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, native to the far southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It typically grows 15–20 m (49–66 ft) tall and 3–6 m (10–20 ft) wide, with a sturdy, columnar trunk and waxy, fan-shaped (palmate) leaves. As a monocot, it is evergreen and exhibits a tree-like growth habit.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Washingtonia filifera
- Slug
- washingtonia-filifera
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Washingtonia
- Species
- filifera
- Wikidata QID
- Q158389
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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