Plant Profile

Brahea armata (Mexican blue palm )

Mexican Blue Palm is a slow growing  very distinctive and attractive plant with large, blue/grey fan leaves. It grows to 10-15 m in height . Beautiful and distinctive long sprays of flowers arch out and down 3-4 m from the canopy . It will adapt to dry or sandy locations in arid climates and requires no special care once established. It is very frost resistant, and established good sized plants have been known to survive -10C. Mostly disease resistant.

  • Landscape Information
  • Botanical Description
  • Horticulture Management
  • By Rjcastillo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Rjcastillo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Search plant on Google

Download as PDF
  • By Rjcastillo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Rjcastillo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Search plant on Google

Download as PDF
  • By Rjcastillo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Rjcastillo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Search plant on Google

Download as PDF