Washingtonia robusta

🌴 Washingtonia robusta – Mexican Fan Palm
📏 Height: 20–30 m | 🌿 Fan-shaped (palmate) bright green leaves with silky filaments on the edges
🪵 Very slender, gray-pink trunk, tapering towards the top
🌍 Origin
🇲🇽 Northwestern Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
📍 Ideal for
🏞️ Tree-lined avenues, Mediterranean, coastal, and urban gardens
✨ Tropical effect with a tall, upright, and resilient form
🌼 Flowering
📅 Late spring – summer
🌾 Long, pendulous cream-white flower spikes (up to 3 m)
🍒 Small black berries, inedible
💧 Tolerance
🌞 Full sun | 🌵 Excellent drought tolerance
❄️ Cold-hardy to –6 / –8 °C (adult plants)
🌊 Tolerates salinity and wind | 🪴 Prefers drained, even poor soils
🧰 Care
✂️ Remove dead leaves (“skirt”) for aesthetics and safety
🌱 Fast-growing | 🛡 Low-maintenance, robust, and long-lived
⚠️ Can become very tall: choose planting location carefully