The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Pritchardia limahuliensis
Also called Na Pali Loulu, Nā Pali Loulu, Lo'ulu
Limahuli Valley pritchardia is a rare, medium-sized fan palm (to about 10 m) native to Kauai, Hawaii, known only from the Limahuli Valley area and conserved there. It is grown mainly in botanical collections and warm, frost-free gardens, and is threatened in the wild by introduced rats that eat its seeds.
Pritchardia limahuliensis, the Limahuli Valley pritchardia, is a palm native to Hawaii. It is a rare species, only discovered in 1977 by staff of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in the Limahuli Garden and Preserve, Kauai, Hawaii, where it is now being conserved. It is threatened by introduced rats, which eat the seeds.
It is a medium-sized palm, growing to 10 m tall, with palmate (fan-shaped) leaves.
Hawai'i pritchardia · Nihoa Fan Palm · Kilauea pritchardia · Mt. Eke pritchardia · Loulu · Makaleha pritchardia · Waianae Range pritchardia · Lanai pritchardia · Lo'ulu · Molokai pritchardia · Alakai Swamp pritchardia · Pritchardia mitiaroana
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pritchardia limahuliensis 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.
