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Stouter and shorter than the much more common Mexican fan palm and hairier on the leaf margins. Specimens can be seen in six islands of the Inner Quad. In Palo Alto, the three specimens at 918 Moreno Avenue can easily be compared to the Mexican fan palm nearby at 924 Moreno.
Illus. right: George B. Sudworth. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope. USDA, 1907. Click for larger image | palmately compound (fan palm) leaf and petiole (leaf stalk)
Other campus palms: Brahea armata | Brahea edulis | Butia capitata | Chamaerops humilis | Jubaea chilensis | Livistona chinensis | Phoenix canariensis | Syagrus romanzoffianum | Trachycarpus fortunei | Washingtonia filifera | Washingtonia robusta
Illustrations (links open new windows): gallery
Additions/Revisions:Name derivation, genus | species
Related material: Canopy Trees for Palo Alto Tree Library Botanical
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