A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The House Plant Forum ID and advice on this palm

Hello again,

Here's another new houseplant that I recently received. It's a palm, obviously, but I haven't decided what it is yet. It may be a small parlor palm, like a 'neanthe bella', or maybe it's an areca palm. Or maybe it's something else. I don't know. What do you think?



Also, it looks very crowded in this pot. It's actually in a 6" plastic green pot that's sitting down in this container pot. It looks crowded to me, but I've never had a palm like this before. Would you repot it? Would you split it?

Thanks again!

It looks like a parlour palm to me and does look crowded. If you repot, only repot one size bigger: so a 6" pot would go to an 8" pot. I've never split a parlour palm before.

Looks like it to me too,, but I'd wait untill spring is here to re pot it!,, I don't know about splitting it either, But someone around here may know

I agree with the others and do wait til spring. A friend of mine split her's and it didnt make it, I guess the roots couldnt take the shock..
Christine

This looks to be a Chamaedorea sp. palm. They are a clumping palm that is fine when crowded. I don't think it is too crowded in this pot but I would put it into a pot that provides some drainage. Without water being able to flush through the soil you can get salt build up from fertilizers as well as other "things" in water like fluoride which leads to tip burning.