| Scientific Name: | Chamaedorea elegans |
| Common Name: | parlour palm, neanthe bella palm |
| Family Name: | Arecaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Even-pinnate, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Yellow, Jun-Aug |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Black |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Palm usually 0.5-1.5m tall when grown indoors and often sold in pots with many stems arising from a rhizome; leaves pinnately compound with 11-20 leaflets per side, 12-20cm long x 1-2cm wide on centre of mature blades, leaf scars visible along the trunk of stem. | |