PLANTING A BOTTLE PALM TREE

Not all of us are lucky enough to grow bottle palms in our homes, but for those lucky of us who can, what a treat for them. These plants have their name due to the trunk’s strong resemblance to a bottle. The trunk is swollen and have rounded shape when young and becoming more elongated as the palm matures. Bottle palm referred to a true palm that is native to the Mascarene Islands where warm, soothy temperatures and loose, sandy soil form the plant’s habitat. Bottle palm plantation in northern climates is not recommended, as they are not frost hardy. Southern gardeners, however, should know how to grow a bottle palm tree and how to use this unique and beautiful tropical plant. Bottle palm tree-WBM Foundation plantation Introduction These Plants have an ability to develop all sorts of amazing adaptations to help them survive. Bottle palm trees have progress with thickened trunks topped with scaly crowns. The purpose is unclear but might have been it’s a natural wat...