The elegant, graceful, exotic and  clumping plant is a very popular palm for indoor use. You can grow Rhapis Excelsa in a home, patio or garden. The Lady palm is very adaptable to different environments and climates. The Rhapis Excelsa could be an ideal container plant for malls and offices.

The Lady palms are derived from cultivated groups in China.  Then they have been culivated in Japan for a long time and later were brought to Europe and the United States. There is not enough information how it grows in wild.

Additional Information:

Scientific name: Rhapis Excelsa

Family: Arecaceae

Other names:  Broadleaf Lady palm, Bamboo palm.

Name: It is named the Broadleaf Lady palm because the leaves are divided in broad segments. It is called the Bamboo Palm because when leaves shed, they reveal bamboo-like stems.

Genus: Phapis

Origin: It is native to Southern China.

Growth rate: It is slow growing.

Trunk: The slender, bamboo-like or cane-like, sturdy, covered with dark brown coarse fiber stems can grow up to 6-12 feet. The stems are full of leaves from the top to the bottom.

Leaves: The fan-shaped, narrow, glossy, thick textured leaves are divided in 5-12 broad segments with ragged needle-like ends.

Indoor/Outdoor Use: Both

Maintenance: Low

Light exposure: It grows well in partial shade.

Water requirements: It has moderate water requirements.

Drought toleration: It is moderate drought tolerant.

Cold toleration: It is relatively cold hardy. It can take temperature down to 20 F.

Flowers: The Lady pam flowers in springs. The inflorescence is short.  The small stalks of pale pink-white flowers come from green bracts from between leaf sheath and have pleasant fragrance. The flowers are dioecious.

Fruits: The fruits are round, fleshy and cream-white in color.

Propagation: It is propagated by seeds or divisions of clumps. The seeds germinate easily.

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