Common Name:
Windmill Palm
About 6 species of palms. Stems solitary or clustering, erect, clothed in leaf bases or becoming more or less bare. Leaves palmate. Flowers cream to yellow. Fruit spherical to kidney shaped, purple-black to orange.
Trachycarpus: from Greek trachys, rough, karpos, fruit, a reference to the fruit in some species.
Pronunciation:
trak-ee-KAR-pus
Family:
Arecaceae
Palmae