This beautiful tree offers much versatility as a landscape Palm or as a Container Plant which can be brought Indoors in areas with a Colder winter. The Attractive Eye Catching Bluish Grey foliage makes a nice contrast with desert vegetation. Cultural Requirements: Mexican Blue Palm tolerates extremes of heat, cold, drought, wind and a wide range of growing conditions. The Blue Hesper Palm has single gray trunk which is topped with beautiful silvery-blue fan shaped fronds. Lightly swollen at the base trunk is ringed with scars from old leaf bases. Trunk can get up to 1.5ft in diameter. It requires some maintenance, if the dead leaves are not trimmed or dropped off they form a brown skirt. Brahea armata has one of the bluest fronds in the world. It has 25-20 palmate, or fan shaped, fronds with 40 to 60 leaflets which can range from pastel bluish white or silver-blue to aquamarine in color. The Blue Hesper Palm has waxy stems that are covered with dark curved thorns. During summer months Blue Hesper Palm produces beautiful white fragrant flowers that grow in clusters up to 3ft long. They hang down from the leaves extending much farther than the leaves’ length. Flowers are bisexual, male and female flowers are on the same inflorescence. The Blue Hesper Palm flowers are considered to be one of the most beautiful of palm flowers. As flowers mature they are followed by reddish brown editable fruits. These berrylike fruits are about ¾ inch in diameter and have a single round seed inside. This palm can get up to 40 ft tall and 15 ft wide.
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