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Adonidia Palm
Veitchia merrillii, Adonidia merrillii
The adonidia palm - often called “Christmas Palm” - is a showy, highly ornamental palm that works beautifully in small landscape areas.
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.
It looks like a miniature royal palm, with its green crown shaft, gray trunk and long full fronds.
Single trunk specimens work almost anywhere since they won't grow too large or too fast to overwhelm most locations.
Christmas palms make good focal points in small tropical gardens and, when taller and more mature, they can become an elegant statement palm.
They're regarded as deer resistant, though we make no guarantees.