Pronunciation: prih-CHAR-dee-uh gluh-BRA-tuh
Common Name: Smooth Loulu Palm
Pritchardia glabrata is one of the more ornamental of Pritchardias and grown far too rarely in California. It is one of the shortest of the Pritchardia but has large, deep green, flat leaves with nicely drooping leaflets at their tips. Often sold and grown under synonym Pritchardia lanaiensis.
Synonym: Pritchardia lanaiensis
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Appearance and Biology
- Habit: solitary with a crown of 8-10 fan leaves
- Height: 6' estimate
- Trunk: single; 8"-10" thick; often covered with leaf bases in California
- Crownshaft: none
- Spread: 10'
- Leaf Description: palmate; heavily pleated; deep green; divided up to 1/2 their length; semicircular; leaflets drooping at the tips; 5' long (blade 3' long)
- Petiole/Leaf bases: 2' long; unarmed; un-split leaf bases
- Reproduction: monoecious
- Inflorescence: 3'-5' long; from within leaves
- Fruit: spherical to ovoid; 1.2" long; black when ripe
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Horticultural Characteristics
- Minimum Temp: 29F
- Drought Tolerance: moderate
- Dry Heat Tolerance: moderate
- Cool Tolerance: low to moderate
- Wind Tolerance: low
- Salt Tolerance: unknown
- Growth Rate: very slow to slow
- Soil Preference: adaptable but prefers moist and well draining
- Light Requirement: shade to filtered sun
- Human Hazards: none
- Disease or Horticultural Problems: none
- Transplants?: unknown
- Indoor?: unknown
- Availability: rare to very rare
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San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California
seedling in San Fernando Valley
8 year old plant, Los Angeles
seedling in San Fernando Valley
Ho'Olamuhia Botanical gardens, Oahu, Hawaii
frost damage at about 28F in Los Angeles
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