Chamaerops humilis 'Vulcano'

Chamaerops humilis 'Vulcano'
Left - growing here amongst many other spikey plants in the Carribean Home From Home garden. This is a variety of the only native European palm which was found in Sicily as a naturally occuring sport of C. humilis. It has shorter petioles, or leaf stems, which means that the leaves bunch more tightly around the top of the trunk. The leaves are a little smaller, more silver in colour than most C. humilis and more heavily pleated. You can see the crown of the species Chamaerops humilis in the background to the right of C. 'Vulcano' in this photo.
Right - A fine specimen at the Palm Centre in London, see their link on our Resources Page, which has had it's suckering shoots removed from the base of the plant, as it has grown. All Chamaerops develop one or several main trunks with many small crowns around their base.  

Left - Another specimen at the Palm Centre, you can see one or two small leaves from a sucker at the base of trunk.