Morphological characteristics of palm evergreen small trees. Trunk cylindrical, straight and unbranched, surrounded by brown skin, canopy umbrella-shaped. Leaf shape is like cattail fan, tufted at stem end, develop to all sides, long and narrow fold, to the middle palm cleft, long petiole. Flowers unisexual, dioecious, fleshy spikelets, pale yellow flowers, with distinct bracts. Drupe globose, initially cyan, when ripe, black brown, slightly white pink, flowers toward April, fruit ripening in November
Habit palm for tropical and subtropical tree species, production of China's South of the Qinling Hanzhong Basin, the Yangtze River in the middle and lower reaches of the south China coast are cultivated. Like warm and humid climate, cold and shade tolerance. Suitable for good drainage, loose, fertile, moist land; Slightly acidic soil, neutral soil and calcareous soil can adapt. Too wet ground, easy to rot roots; And for shallow root species, easy to wind down.
Cultivation technology reproduction take seeding seedling reproduction. With fresh seeds along with the sowing, can also be sand to the next spring sowing. Before sowing, soak the seeds in 60-70 ℃ warm water for 1 day and night to accelerate germination. The row spacing is 20-25 cm, and the soil is 2 cm thick. About 50 days after sowing germination unearthed, some need more than 100 days to germinate. Seedling period to timely loose soil weeding, strengthen fertilizer and water management. Palm initial growth is slow, generally want to stay in bed or change bed for planting, cultivate after 2-3 years and then transplant. Management seedlings transplant seedlings to leave roots, with soil ball, planting should not be too deep, otherwise easy to cause rotten heart, cover the soil to the original state, hole surface to keep the plate shape. After planting, cut off 1/2 leaves to reduce transpiration and improve survival rate. Peacetime management, drought, appropriate watering, cold weather, winter to grass wrapped. When new leaves occur and old leaves droop, they should be cut off in time. Bean cake manure or barnyard manure can be applied in winter and spring every year to facilitate growth.
