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 ===== Adonidia Palm =====
-Veitchia merrillii, Adonidia merrillii
+Veitchia merrillii, Adonidia merrillii\\
 The adonidia palm - often called "Christmas Palm" - is a showy, highly ornamental palm that works beautifully in small landscape areas.\\
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 The adonidia is easy care...it's self-cleaning, meaning the spent fronds just fall off by themselves, a big low-maintenance plus. And adonidias are pretty much pest-free.\\
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 They're regarded as deer resistant, though we make no guarantees.\\
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+**Plant specs** \\
+Christmas palms work best in Zone 10, where in a normal winter an adonidia will do very well. To be on the safe side, plant in a location that isn't subject to cold winds or frost.\\
+Growing slowly to an average height of 12 to 15 feet, this palm is moderately salt-tolerant - it usually won't be affected by salt spray.\\
+A recent concern for this palm as been cold weather.\\
+For decades we all planted adonidia palms in our yards with carefree abandon...until the winter of 2009-2010. Record cold temperatures lasting for hours over several weeks' time took their toll on this pretty little palm (and many other plants as well) throughout South Florida.\\
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+**Plant care**\\
+Performing best in full sun, a Christmas palm tree can tolerate partial shade.\\
+But too much shade causes the trunks to grow skinny and the fronds thin.
+Add top soil or organic peat moss to the hole when you plant.
+Fertilize with granular palm fertilizer during spring, summer and autumn...at least one application per season.
+Let the fronds drop off naturally as they brown. If you can't stand the look of a browned frond, you can cut it off, but leaving them on to fall off on their own benefits the palm as dying fronds send nutrients to new ones forming.\\
+**Plant spacing**\\
+Single trunk adonidias work in tighter areas planted 5 to 6 feet away from the house to give the fronds room to grow and prevent them from surface scraping damage.\\
+Multi-trunk palms need adequate room to spread out...the trunks will naturally bow causing the fronds to extend a bit further. Position the trunks so they won't be in the way once they gain some stature.\\
+These palms are also easy to grow in containers. Large pots or planter boxes where they'll grow happily for some years are the best choice. Once your palm outgrows a large container it can always be planted in the garden.\\
+**Landscape uses for adonidia palm**\\
+  * by the entry (mainly singles)
+  * accent for the corner of the house
+  * single yard specimen
+  * central anchor plant for small gardens and island beds
+  * in tall pool cages (interior 15’ or higher)
+  * center of a circular drive
+  * on each side of an entrance to a long driveway
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