Trachycarpus takil

Trachycarpus takil grows to 10–15 metres (33–49 ft) tall, with a rough trunk covered in fiber from the old leaf bases. It is one of the cold hardiest palms to produce a tall trunk, tolerating temperatures down to −14 °C to possibly −20 °C, but with leaf damages or total defoliation. [5]

It is easily distinguishable from Trachycarpus fortunei from its infancy by:

• the young plants having the tendency to growing obliquely.
• the young trunk being distinctly conical
• the adult trunk covered with very tightly clasping (not ruffled) chestnut brown fibers.
• the short, triangular, erect ligulas on the leaf sheaths of the terminal shoot.
• the leaves more spreading and those of the previous year being placed just below the last flowering spadices,
• reflexed, although still alive, by the leaf blade being irregularly divided only down to about the middle.
• the fruit being more distinctly uniform or considerably broader than high.
• the first leaves of sprouting T. takil seeds are duplicate (having only two ridges differing from T. fortunei with its quadruplicate first leaves.)

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