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Spotting

Description:

Like a palm with tentacle like leaves that flower?

Habitat:

Los Angeles CA

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3 Comments

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 9 years ago

This is known as a fishtail palm, and for scientific name you can use Caryota sp. (as was suggested below).

jj
jj 10 years ago

This is spot on! Thank you so much for the help!!

C. Daehler
C. Daehler 10 years ago

It's a Caryota species. Caryota urens and Caryota mitis are especially popular in landscaping.
http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Category:C...

jj
Spotted by
jj

Anaheim, California, USA

Spotted on Jun 23, 2013
Submitted on Jun 23, 2013

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