Pronunciation: sigh-AHG-russ core-uh-NOT-uh
Common Name: Licury Palm
Syagrus coronata is an excellent palm for many of the warmer and the more desert-like areas of California. It has a nice symmetry not seen in many other species of Syagrus. There are many mature examples this palm throughout southern California. Nice ornamental trunk with spiraling leaf bases, too. Needs a bit of room since leaf spread is large and leaves grow primarily laterally.
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Appearance and Biology
- Habit: solitary with a crown of 10-20 feather leaves
- Height: 10'
- Trunk: single; 8"-10" thick; covered with closely spaced un-split leaf bases that tend to spiral around trunk
- Crownshaft: none
- Spread: 12'-14'
- Leaf Description: pinnate; plumose with leaflets in two distinct planes, both in a 'V'; some leaflet drooping but for most of their length are fairly stiff and straight; leaflets arranged fairly symmetrically and are short relative to the length of the leaf give the leaves an ornamental, sculpted look; long and arching (8'-9' long) with a bit of a twist in some; light to glaucous green in color
- Petiole/Leaf bases: 2' long; slightly arching, unarmed, light green to yellowy-green
- Reproduction: monoecious
- Inflorescence: 2' long; many branches; arching from within leaf crown; yellow flowers
- Fruit: 1" long; ovoid; yellow-green to orange when ripe; fuzzy brown tomentum on them
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Horticultural Characteristics
- Minimum Temp: 27F
- Drought Tolerance: good once established
- Dry Heat Tolerance: good
- Wind Tolerance: moderate
- Salt Tolerance: unknown
- Growth Rate: slow
- Soil Preference: widely adaptable
- Light Requirement: full sun
- Human Hazards: none
- Disease or Horticultural Problems: none
- Transplants?: moves fairly well
- Indoor?: unknown
- Availability: rare but often available at palm specialty nurseries
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