50 Common Trees in Hong Kong 1

Trachycarpus fortunei

The leaves are large and round. Each with palmate veins and being cut into narrow, radiating folded strips. The inflorescences arise among the leaves, which at first enclosed in a large sheathing spathe.

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  Single trunk, unbranched.
  

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  Trunk surface covered with old leaf sheaths that arranged spirally and interspersed with many coarse black hairy fibres.
  

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  Leaves large and round, diameter up to 1 metre.
  
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  Each with palmate veins, and splits around the margin into many narrow, radiating folded strips.
  

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  Flowers unisexual or bisexual; the inflorescences arise among the leaves.
  
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  Flowers dull olive-yellow in colour, made up of 3 broad petals.
  

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  Each enclosed at first in a large sheathing spathe, usually clustered together in twos, threes or fours on the inflorescence stalk.
  

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  Soft, berry-like fleshy fruit.
  
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  Bluish-brown in colour, somewhat kidney-shaped.