Small, Medium & Large Lipstick Palms are now available at National Tropical Plants.
Cyrtostachys renda, originally uploaded by tanetahi.
It wouldn't be right to start this blog with any other plant than the Lipstick Palm. This truly is our favourite! Cyrtostachys renda, originally uploaded by tanetahi.
The Lipstick palm (or Red Sealing Wax Palm) is a stunning feather palm with a brilliantly, almost unbelievably vivid red trunk & crown shaft, found in lowland coastal swamps in SE Asia.
(It is also known as 'Cyrtostachys lakka', which has now been included under 'Cyrtostachys renda'.)
It’s a medium sized, to about 6m, clumping palm. One of the most spectacular and colourful tropical palms and extremely popular as garden and landscaping plant.
Cyrtotachys renda is very cold sensitive and should not be grown in the garden outside the tropics, but I still recommend you give it a go if you aren't in the tropics. Find a nice warm place inside your home, or in a conservatory or glass house. Take it outside in summer & love it like it deserves. It makes for a wonderful and spectacular potted specimen for the house and patio (on warm days). It should not be exposed to temperatures under aprox 10 degrees, preferable above 20 degrees.
In the tropics it’s very easy to grow, provided it gets lots of water and sun/overhead light. Soil should be rich, moist and loamy, and plants should be fed monthly with a tropical plant or palm fertilizer.
Definitely worth the effort and a must for every palm lover/collector! Red Sealing Wax Palm recommendations: I recommend you soak them in some seaweed solution on arrival, for up to a couple of hours right before potting up. Water in with some Fungicide like Fongarid & leave to dry out for a couple of days, then water regularly.
Keep in high humidity in bright light, but no full sun. Add some slow release fertiliser for tropical plants or palms, and keep up regular foliar sprays with seaweed solution.
Small, Medium & Large Lipstick Palms are now available at National Tropical Plants.
Lipstick Palm plants is really very good choice for starting a blog and i have this in my garden but i am thinking of growing some more tropical plants as it looks nice.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt that lipstick palm is very stunning feather palm and i am was thinking from very long of having any tropical plants in my garden, So please suggest a suitable online nursery.
ReplyDeleteAll the plants are definitely worth the effort and a must for every palm lover/collector! I was looking for a plants nursery and glad to find this place.
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