General description: The Lady palm is one of the most popular and rubust indoor palm trees. It will give an oriental look and create a lush tropical atmosphere into your home interior.

The Lady palm grows in clumps of several slender, covered with dark brown coarse fiber stems. The plant has narrow, shiny, deeply divided in 5-12 broad segments with ragged needle-like ends, dark green fronds. This lovely indoor palm tree produces small stalks of pale pink-white flowers in green bracts and fleshy, cream-white fruits.

Each spring you should divide or replant this indoor palm tree into a new size container.

Scientific name: Rapis Excelsa

Family: Arecaceae

Genus: Phapis

Origin: Southern China

Maintenance: Low

Light requirements: It can tolerate low light, but grows best in indirect light, medium light, filtered light. 

Water requirements: Water the plant when the soil is dry.

Humidity: Medium. Mist the plant daily.

Soil conditions: Well-drained soils (a mixture with loam, leaf mold and sand) and acid soils.

Fertilization: It requires little fertilizer.

Pests and diseases: It is highly resistant to most diseases and pests. Spider mites and mealy bugs may occur.

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