| Scientific Name: | Caryota mitis |
| Common Name: | fishtail palm |
| Family Name: | Arecaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Spiraled, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Lustrous, Bipinnate, Deltoid, Entire, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), White, May-Jul |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Yellow, Red, Jan-Dec |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clustered basal stems 4-8cm in diameter eventually form bamboo-like nodes, 2-4m tall (outdoor plants in Zones 9b-11 can grow more than double this size); leaves pinnately compound, blades 1-3m long with 9-23 leaflets per side, each is ragged looking with fan-shape tips that resemble a fish tail, 10-18cm long x 7-12cm wide; petioles 80-190cm long; separate reddish male and female catkins may emerge below the foliage. | |