Scientific Name: Ravenea rivularis
Common Name: majesty palm
Family Name: Arecaceae
Origin: Africa
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 10 - 15m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure:
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Even-pinnate, Linear, Lacerate
Flowers: Panicle, White
Fruit: Drupe, Orange
Key ID Features:
Forms a thick crown and eventually grows quite tall; leaves upward-arching, pinnately compound with 20-60 leaflets on each side of the rachis on indoor potted plants; leaflets near centre of blade mostly 40-64cm long x 1.5-3.2cm wide and separate by about 2cm of rachis.