The Areca Palm

The Areca Palm

The areca palm, also called the yellow butterfly palm, bamboo palm and golden cane palm,is one of the easiest palm trees to grow indoors. It's relatively disease-free and topped best air purifying plants. This palm tree tree, with its long, graceful feather-shaped fronds, will add a tropical feel to your home. Although the areca palm can grow as high as 30 feet outdoors, in interior locations, it tends to average only 6 to 7 feet. Long evergreen leaf stems shoot up from golden stalks and arch outward and down.

Growing Of Areca Palm

• Fill a gallon-sized pot with soilless potting mix to within an inch of the pot's brim.

• Clean the areca palm seed if it was not harvested immediately prior to you planting it. Using a knife, cut into the fibrous husk that covers the seed and peel it off to reveal the smooth seed inside. If you're planting the seed immediately after collecting it from an areca palm, cleaning is not necessary.

• Bury the seed in the soilless potting mix to a depth so that its top surface is just barely visible.

• Water the pot twice a day or as necessary to keep the top couple of inches of potting mix moist.

• Place the pot in a brightly lit area that is out of direct sunlight. For the best germination rates, maintain a temperature around the pot of 80 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The areca palm will typically germinate within two to six weeks.

Caring Of Areca Palm

Plant your Areca Palm in a pot large enough to comfortable hold the plant, with some room for new growth. Make sure your pot has a drainage hole, and always water thoroughly, until some water flows from that hole. Allow the top few inches of the soil to become dry before watering again. Use a foliage houseplant fertilizer from spring to Fall, but only at ½ strength, as palms do not like a lot of salts in the water. As well, do not use water that has been through a water-softener, and if you have a lot of chlorine in your tap water, allow it to stand overnight in the watering can. These salts cause spotting on the leaves. The Areca Palm like humidity, so mist plants growing indoors daily.

Benefits Of Areca Palm

• Major indoor air pollutants removed by this plant

• Areca palm plants absorb harmful pollutants from indoor air and provide fresh air. thus helps in minimizing upper respiratory tract diseases causes mainly because of toluene.

• Areca palm therefore provides fresh air by absorbing toluene and other gases, hence, helps in improving the nervous system in children and stops necrosis that is the sudden death of cells and other tissue of the body.

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