Palm tree gets a new look with bare trunk. Updated: Aug. 31, 2012, 4:50 p.m. ... Windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) is by far the most common palm planted in Portland.

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Also known as the Chinese windmill palm, the windmill palm tree (Trachycarpus fortunei) is one of the toughest trees you can try. Suitable for USDA zones 8-10, it benefits from being both cold ...

Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

Windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei), also called Chinese or Japanese windmill palm, is a relatively slow-growing, small, tough palm with dark green foliage and cold-hardy to 5 degrees. It is ...

Windmill palms. Trachycarpus fortunei. A tree that can reach 7 to 8 feet tall, these survive temperatures down to 14 below zero. Leaf damage begins at 8 to 10 degrees, ...

California boasts many palm trees, ... There are a few small palms, like windmill palm and Mediterranean fan palm, that are more proportionate to compact gardens.

Palms related to Mexican fan palms and Chinese windmill palms, Reichgelt told me, once stretched to Alberta, Canada. “Palm pollen, which is less attributable to a specific group, has been found ...

Palm trees have fibrous root systems that do not go deep, but rather spread widely like a mat into the top 12 to 36 inches of soil. The root systems can be very extensive.

A map that the Department of Transportation has put together shows just how popular the windmill palm is. It tracks 175,000 of the 225,000 to 250,000 trees on SDOT property, broken down by 122 types.

Palm trees are a staple of New Orleans' tropical landscapes. ... while windmill palms reach 15 to 20 feet tall with a spread of about 5 feet. Some palms grow in a more shrublike fashion, ...

Our palm panoply extends to the ritzy Canary Island date palm, the pygmy date and windmill palms, and a mini-monarchy of queen and king palms, which look a little haphazardly asymmetrical.