A L.chinensis. Is this what you mean by leaves curling at the end?

http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=47635&flora_id=1001

Barb

Yes

Keith

Keith,
Here's my L. chinensis, coming back from the dead after getting too little water the last two years (it was ignored a lot).

<a href=" http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/6903760997/" title="001 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src=" " width="640" height="480" alt="001"></a>

But mine's in a cold building, still quite a bit warmer than what yours was exposed to.

Once our weather warms up, looks like yours could do with a lot of water.

Barb

Keith,
Yeah we shipped those "Chinese Fan Palms" by the thousands to Home Depots all along the East coast the five years I worked there.
Thats a Chinese Fan Palm, Livistona chinensis... maybe 25 to 35 dollars retail for a 10" pot.. typically an indoor plant.

Trachycarpus fortunei, a "Chinese windmill palm" or "Chusan Palm" are much cold hardier... regarded as outdoor palms, are less widely available, and more expensive. Mine were 10" pots at maybe $65 a plant same size.

So it is really cool you overwintered a L. chinensis nonetheless.

Adam

Hey Adam and Barb I found a picture of my palm from last summer. Check it out and let me know what you think. I did not notice droppy leaves. It is a better picture than the one from this spring.

I'm dumbfounded that even that better pic doesn't resemble a Chinese Fan.
Too skinny with thin petioles.

Was it a lot thicker, denser than that when you bought it?

Barb

Hi all,

Sorry to jump in uninvited 😆 Could it be that this is a Trachy that was grown under low light conditions and therefore grew longer than ususal petioles?

Rob (who killed his Trachy in Oakville, ON)

No invite EVER needed 😕

Even young Trachies have a trunk.
Keith's isn't a Trachy.

killed his Trachy in Oakville, ON

how? insufficient winter protection?

Sorry, Bryce 😉 for completely derailing your thread 😆

Barb

I have seen petioles like that on the Chinese Fan palms sold at walmart for $9.95 I bought one like that one time and after all those leaves on the long petioles died the new leaves were shorter. It looks live a Chinese fan palm to me, they are pretty hardy, not as hardy as Chinese windmill palm but hardier than most of the other palms sold by the big box stores.

It's cool Barb