Palm Trees are a family of evergreen, tropical and very unique flowering plants. The family is called Arecaceae or Palmae. Mostly they grow in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions. Palms are one the most extensively cultivated and well-known plant families. There are more than 2500 species in this family, and all of them can be found around the world today.

The plants of the family Arecaceae have an unbranched trunk and a crown of large fan-shaped or feather-shaped compound leaves. Palms with pinnate (feather-shaped) leaves, known as feather palms, and plants of the family Palmae with fan-shaped leaves are called fan palms.

On this website we will talk about fan palms. There are many different species of fan palms. There are trees and shrubs among them. The tropical fan plants can be solitary or clustering (multi-stemmed) in growth habit. Some of them are hardy and able to withstand colder temperatures, and others - heat lovers.

On the website we will discuss the fan palm unique characteristics and features, growth rate, as well different types of fan palms.

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