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Pritchardia glabrata
Also called Smooth Loulu, Lana'i Pritchardia
Pritchardia glabrata, called smooth loulu, is a small Hawaiian fan palm with a slender trunk rarely over 5 m tall, native to steep slopes on Maui and Lanai. Grow it in a warm, frost-free climate with good drainage, and protect young plants from strong dry wind.
Pritchardia glabrata is a species of palm tree. It is endemic to the island of Maui in Hawaii. It grows at around 500–550 metres A.S.L. It grows on steep slopes between 300 and 900 metres (1000 and 3000 feet) above sea level on the Hawaiian Islands of Maui and Lanai, which are slightly drier. This is one of the small Pritchardia, with a slender trunk rarely reaching five meters (17 feet) in length, but otherwise similar to P. remote and P. waialealeana, with which it shares the same sort of simple trunk.
Hawai'i pritchardia · Nihoa Fan Palm · Kilauea pritchardia · Mt. Eke pritchardia · Makaleha pritchardia · Waianae Range pritchardia · Lanai pritchardia · Lo'ulu · Limahuli Valley pritchardia · Molokai pritchardia · Alakai Swamp pritchardia · Pritchardia mitiaroana
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pritchardia glabrata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
