Trachycarpus sp. (Naga Hills)
Saramati Palm

you are purchasing 10 seeds.

full germination instructions included

A very exciting new discovery that seems to come from the most remote corner of India, the northeastern states of Nagaland and Manipur and from neighboring Burma, where it grows on grassy or rocky slopes around 2000 m (6500 ft.) in altitude. It is likely that this is the same palm that Frank Kingdon Ward wrote about in his 1952 book Plant Hunter in Manipur. While the palm apparently shares some characteristics with the Chinese Trachycarpus princeps, most impressively the fabulous white undersides of the leaves, it is quite likely not identical with this species. Its leaflets are more numerous, the petioles more sturdy and not blue, and overall it seems coarser than T. princeps. Some of its features remind of T. oreophilus from Thailand. It does seem to be a very promising and most likely quite cold tolerant palm.