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California Fan Palms - Cold Hardy Palm Trees
(Washingtonia filifera)
Other common names include desert fan palm, California palm, fanpalm, petticoat palm, cotton palm, Arizona fan palm.

Washingtonia filifera grows to 18 metres (59 ft) in height (occasionally to 25 metres (82 ft)) in ideal conditions.

The fronds are up to 3.5–4 metres (11–13 ft) long, made up of a petiole up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) long, bearing a fan of leaflets 1.5–2 metres (4.9–6.6 ft) long. They have long thread-like white fibers and the petiole are pure green with yellow edges and filifera-filaments, between the segments. The trunk is gray and tan and the leaves are gray green. When the fronds die they remain attached and drop down to cloak the trunk in a wide skirt. The shelter that the skirt creates provides a microhabitat for many small birds and invertebrates. If there is any red color present on petioles or trunk its not a pure filifera but a fila-busta hybrid.

Washingtonia filifera can live from 80 to 250 years or more.

Washingtonia filifera is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree. It is one of the hardiest Coryphoidiae palms, rated as hardy to USDA hardiness zone 8. It will survive temperatures of −10 °C (14 °F) with minor damage, and established plants have survived, with severe leaf damage, brief periods as low as −12 °C (10 °F). The plants grow best in warm temperate climates with dry summers and wetter winters. Specimens outside of Mediterranean climates rarely exceed 15 metres (49 ft).

Washingtonia filifera has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Outdoor/Indoor Use: Both. California Fan Palm Tree can also grow in a pot.