| Scientific Name: | Rhapis excelsa |
| Common Name: | lady 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: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Leathery, Heavily veined, Parallel venation, Palmate venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Yellow, Green-yellow, Red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), White, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems clustered, reed-like, course, dark brown fibrous leaf sheaths; leaves alternate and spiraled, deeply divided almost to petiole with (3-)6-9(-14) elliptic leaflet-like segments, most 20-30cm long x 2-3cm wide at centre on indoor plants, margins finely toothed, tips becoming truncate and jagged with age, petiole 10-20cm long. | |