Everything You Need To Know About All Types Of Palm Trees
Palm Tree Types
Acai Palm Tree – Euterpe oleracea
Common Name: Açaí Palm, Assai Palm, Acai Palma
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Areca Palm Tree – Chrysalidocarpus lutescens
Common Name: Areca Palm, Yellow Palm, Butterfly Palm, Cane Palm, Golden Feather Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Bailey’s Copernicia Palm Tree – Copernicia Baileyana
Common Name: Yarey Palm, Bailey Yarey Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Bamboo Palm Tree – Chamaedorea seifrizii
Common Name: Bamboo Palm, Reed Palm, Clustered Parlor Palm, Cane Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Banana Palm Tree – Musa
Common Name: Banana Palm, Banana Tree, Plantain Tree, Plantain Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Bismarck Palm Tree – Bismarckia nobilis
Common Name: Bismarck Palm, Bismark Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Blue Hesper Palm Tree – Brahea armata
Common Name: Blue Hesper Palm, Blue Palm, Sweet Brahea Palm, Gray Goddess
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Blue Latan Palm – Latania loddigesii
Common Name: Blue Latan, Blue Latania Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Bottle Palm Tree – Hyophorbe lagenicaulis
Common Name: Bottle Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Buccaneer Palm Tree – Pseudophoenix sargentii
Common Name: Cherry Palm, Sargent’s Cherry Palm, Palma de Guinea
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Cabbage Palm Tree – Sabal palmetto
Common Name: Cabbage Palm, Sabal Palm, Carolina Palmetto, Sabal Palmetto
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8a – 11
California Fan Palm Tree – Washingtonia filifera
Common Name: California Fan Palm, Desert Fan Palm, American Cotton palm, Arizona Fan Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Canary Island Date Palm Tree – Phoenix canariensis
Common Name: Canary Island Date Palm, Canary Date Palm, Canary Palm, Pineapple Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Caranday Palm Tree – Copernicia alba
Common Name: Caranday Palm, Wax Palm, Caranday Wax Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Cardboard Palm Tree – Zamia furfuracea
Common Name: Cardboard Palm, Cardboard Plant, Cardboard Sago, Cardboard Cycad, Mexican Cycad
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Carpentaria Palm Tree – Carpentaria acuminata
Common Name: Carpentaria Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Cat Palm Tree – Chamaedorea cataractarum
Common Name: Cascade Palm, Cataract Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Chinese Fan Palm Tree – Livistona chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Fan Palm, Chinese Fountain Palm, Fountain Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8a – 11
Christmas Palm Tree – Veitchia Merrillii
Common Name: Christmas Palm, Manila Palm, Kerpis Palm, Adonidia
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Coconut Palm Tree – Cocos nucifera
Common Name: Coconut Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Coyure Palm Tree – Aiphanes horrida
Common Name: Ruffle Palm Tree, Aculeata Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Cuban Belly Palm Tree – Acrocomia crispa
Common Name: Corojo Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Cuban Petticoat Palm Tree – Copernicia macroglossa
Common Name: Petticoat Palm, Cuban Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
European Fan Palm Tree – Chamaerops humilis
Common Name: European Fan Palm, Mediterranean fan palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 7b – 11
Fiji Fan Palm Tree – Pritchardia pacifica
Common Name: Fiji Fan Palm, Fiji Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Fishtail Palm Tree – Caryota mitis
Common Name: Clustered Fishtail Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Flame Thrower Palm Tree – Chambeyronia macrocarpa
Common Name: Red Feather Palm, Red Leaf Palm, Blushing Palm, Watermelon Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Florida Thatch Palm Tree – Thrinax radiata
Common Name: Silk-top Thatch Palm, Sea Thatch Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Foxtail Palm Tree – Wodyetia bifurcata
Common Name: Wodyetia bifurcate, Wodyetia Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Guadalupe Palm Tree – Brahea edulis
Common Name: Guadalupe Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Jade Empress Palm Tree – Rhapis multifida
Common Name: Jade Palm, Lady Finger Palm, Finger Palm, Finger Lady Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Joey Palm Tree – Johannesteijsmannia altifrons
Common Name: Diamond Joey Palm, Diamond Joey
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Kentia Palm Tree – Howea forsteriana
Common Name: Kentia Palm, Sentry Palm, Paradise Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Key Thatch Palm Tree – Thrinax morrisii or Leucothrinax morrisii
Common Name: Peaberry palm, Sea Thatch Palm, Blue Thatch Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
King Palm Tree – Archontophoenix alexandrae
Common Name: King Palm, Alexandra Palm, Alexander Palm, Alexandrae Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Lady Palm Tree – Rhapis excelsa
Common Name: Lady Palm, R. flabelliformis, Aristocratic Lady Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Lipstick Palm Tree – Cyrtostachys renda
Common Name: Lipstick Palm, Sealing Wax Palm, Red Sealing Wax Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10b – 11
Macaw Palm Tree – Aiphanes minima
Common Name: Devils Palm Tree
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Majesty Palm Tree – Ravenea rivularis
Common Name: Majesty Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Mazari Palm Tree – Nannorrhops ritchiana
Common Name: Mazari Palm, Mazzari Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 6b – 11
Metallica Palm Tree – Chamaedorea metallica
Common Name: Metal Palm, Metallic Palm, Miniature Fishtail Palm, Dwarf Fishtail Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Mexican Fan Palm Tree – Washingtonia robusta
Common Name: Mexican Fan Palm, Washington palm, Skyduster
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Miniature Chusan Palm Tree – Trachycarpus wagnerianus
Common Name: Miniature Chusan Palm, Wagner’s Windmill Palm, Waggie Palm, Waggie
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 7a – 11
Mule Palm Tree – Butiagrus nabonnandii
Common Name: Butia Queen Cross, Pindo Palm, Butia x Syagrus
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Needle Palm Tree – Rhapidophyllum hystrix
Common Name: Needle Palm, Porcupine Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 5b – 11
Old Man Palm Tree – Coccothrinax crinita
Common Name: Old Man Palm, Thatch Palm, Guano Barbudo, Guano Petate, Palma Petate
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Orange Crownshaft Palm Tree – Areca vestiaria
Common Name: Orange Crownshaft Palm, Orange Palm, Areca vestiaria, Sunset Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Parlor Palm Tree – Chamaedorea elegans
Common Name: Parlour Palm, Neanthe Palm, Table Top Palm, Neanthe Bella
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Paurotis Palm Tree – Acoelorrhaphe wrightii
Common Name: Paurotis Everglades Palm, Paurotis Palm, Everglades Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Pindo Palm Tree – Butia capitata
Common Name: Pindo Palm, Jelly palm, Wine Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 7b – 11
Ponytail Palm Tree – Beaucarnea recurvata
Common Name: Ponytail Palm, Pony Tail Palm, Bottle Palm, Monja, Palma Culona, Elephant-Foot Tree, Elephant Foot
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Purple King Palm Tree – Archontophoenix purpurea
Common Name: Purple King Palm, Mount Lewis King, Purple Piccabean Palm, Purple Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Princess Palm Tree – Dictyosperma album
Common Name: Hurricane Palm, Princess Tree
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Pygmy Date Palm Tree – Phoenix roebelenii
Common Name: Pygmy Date Palm, Robellini Palm, Miniature Date Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Queen Palm Tree – Syagrus romanzoffiana
Common Name: Queen Palm, Cocos Plumose, Arecastrum Romanzoffianum, Jeriva
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Red Latan Palm Tree – Latania lontaroides
Common Name: Red Latan Palm, Latania borbonica, Latania commersonii, Latanier Rouge
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Ruffled Fan Palm Tree – Licuala grandis
Common Name: Ruffled Fan Palm, Vanuatu Fan Palm, Palas Palm, Ruffled Lantan Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Royal Palm Tree – Roystonea oleracea
Common Name: Royal Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Sago Palm Tree – Cycas revoluta
Common Name: Sago Palm, Japanese Sago Palm, King Sago Palm, Sago Cycas
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 7b – 11
Saw Palmetto Palm Tree – Serenoa repens
Common Name: Silver Saw Palmetto Palm, Saw Palmetto Palm, Scrub Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 7a – 11
Spindle Palm Tree – Hyophorbe verschaffeltii
Common Name: Spindle Palm, Mascarena verschaffeltii
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
Sylvester Date Palm Tree – Phoenix sylvestris
Common Name: Sylvester Date Palm, Sugar Date Palm, India Date Palm, Silver Date Palm, Wild Date Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Teddy Bear Palm Tree – Dypsis leptocheilos, Neodypsis lastelliana
Common Name: Teddy Bear Palm, Redneck Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9b – 11
Travelers Palm Tree – Ravenala madagascariensis
Common Name: Travelers Palm, Travellers Palm, Traveler’s Tree
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 9a – 11
Triangle Palm Tree – Dypsis decaryi
Common Name: Triangle Palm, Three Sided Palm, Neodypsis decaryi
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 10a – 11
True Date Palm Tree – Phoenix dactylifera
Common Name: True Date Palm, Date Palm, Edible Date Palm, Deglet Noor
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 8b – 11
Windmill Palm Tree – Trachycarpus fortunei
Common Name: Windmill Palm, Chusan Palm, Chinese Windmill Palm
Cold Hardiness: USDA Zones 7b – 11