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Rhapis excelsa
Also called Lady Palm, Little Lady Palm, Bamboo Palm, Fern Rhapis, Ground Rattan, Miniature Fan Palm, Slender Lady Palm
In Singapore: Ground Rattan, Bamboo Palm, Lady Palm, Miniature Fan Palm, Fern Rhapis, 棕竹, Palm of Success (Grown in Singapore)
Broadleaf lady palm is a clump-forming fan palm with bamboo-like stems and glossy, deeply divided leaves, grown mainly as a shade-tolerant houseplant or indoor-outdoor specimen. Keep it in bright, indirect light, evenly moist, and out of cold drafts.
Rhapis excelsa, also known as broadleaf lady palm or bamboo palm, is a species of fan palm (Arecaceae subfamily Coryphoideae, tribe Trachycarpeae) in the genus Rhapis. It is native to southern China and northern Vietnam. The genus name is Greek - rhapis, meaning "needle"; and the species name is Latin for "tall", though R. excelsa is not the tallest in the genus.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rhapis excelsa 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.
