Washingtonia Filifera - California Desert Fan Palm
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Washingtonia Filifera is a palm native to the southern and southwestern USA states and northwest Mexico. This palm grows up to 23 m (exceptionally 30 m) in good growing conditions.
The leaves have a petiole up to 2 m long, bearing a fan of leaflets 1.5-2 m long, with white, thread-like fibers between the segments. When the leaves die they bend downwards and form a skirt around the trunk.
Washingtonia filifera can live from 80 to 250 years or more and is reported to be cold hardy to -5C.