Jubaea chilensis - Chilean wine palm

This hardy feather palm is from Chile , a can reach a massive 25 metres when mature. It has a grey trunk up to 1.3 metres wide, and a large head of stiff feather leaves which are dull green above and greyish underneath. The seeds are known locally as `coquitos` or miniature coconuts and are considered a delicacy.
Once covering vast areas of Chile millions were cut down to harvest the sap for Chilean palm wine, each tree reportedly yielding 90 gallons. Today it is thought around 100,000 trees survive.

It is highly drought tolerant , takes severe frost when established and does not need hot summers to grow well.
Mature palms in Montpelier, France survived temperatures of -17C.

Excellent gardenpalms for our climate.