PALM PLANTS
COMMON NAME: Areca Palm, Golden Cane Palm, Yellow Palm, or Butterfly Palm
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Dypsis lutescens
FAMILY: Arecaceae
PLANT TYPE: Palm
SUN EXPOSURE: Partial to full sun (outdoors), bright indirect sunlight (indoors)
PROPAGATION: Propagate areca palm by root division
PLACEMENT: Areca palm is one of those plants that do equally good both outdoors and indoors.
- Improves Air Humidity.
- Absorbs Indoor Air-Pollutants.
- Helps in relieving stress.
- Plants absorb carbon dioxide and expel oxygen through the natural photosynthesis process. As a result, all living houseplants naturally refill the oxygen in your indoor air.
- Areca palms can be grown both indoors and outdoors, and feature soft, fine-textured fronds that are beautifully full and dense.
- The right amount of light and high humidity is essential for successfully growing areca palm trees indoors.
- Indoors, they require bright indirect sunlight from a south or west-facing window, while outdoors they grow best in bright, filtered sunlight but are also tolerant of full sun.
- These palm trees are sensitive to fluoride in hard water so water them when the soil is slightly dry with collected rainwater or distilled water.
- Areca palm trees are heavy feeders and will require regular fertilizing from spring to early fall.