Prichardia pacifica

Pritchardia pacifica is an evergreen, single-stemmed palm tree, which usually grows up to 10 meters tall, occasionally reaching 15 meters. The unbranched stem is up to 30cm in diameter, topped by a crown of fan-shaped leaves up to 120cm wide on stems 100 long
BARK:  grey brown, obscurely ringed with leaf scars, smooth or with irregular shallow vertical fissures, attractive trunk and large, nearly round, barely split.
LEAVES:  up to 1,8 m long and almost as wide, pleated at the base, and divided into 73 to 90 distinct sections in the upper half of the leaf, glabrous dull green slightly waxy-glaucous, on both upper and lower surfaces, without any scales or spots underneath, segment tips stiff. The leaves are held out from the stem by long petioles (leaf stalk) with only a few fibres on the margins.
FLOWERS:  One to four spadices (A fleshy spike enclosed within a sheath-like involucre characteristic of palms) are produced in each leaf axil (between the leaf stalk and the stem) and the inflorescence composed of 1-4 panicles springing out from the spathe is shorter than the leaf stalk. The panicles are branched to 2 orders, rachillae glabrous.Three sepaled, around 7-8 mm long, yellow green colour. The flowers are bisexual.
FRUITS:  spherical 11-12 mm in diameter, reddish-brown then black at maturity, containing a single seed.

The leaves were traditionally used to make special, large, umbrella-fans for chiefs.
The trunk has sometimes been used as a ridge beam.
Can be grown indoors in containers as a houseplant.
Leaves have commonly been used as fans hence the common name of fan palm.
An ornamental palm.

Fiji fan palm is native to Fiji in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Its one of the most attractive Pritchardias , grown widely in tropical countries and sought after by collectors.Prefers tropical conditions, will not grow in temperate climates and is marginal where winter temperatures go below 5 C. It occursin tropical dry forests with mean monthly temperatures ranging from 22 C in July to 28 C in January. Rainfall averages 1800 mm per year with most falling during December-April summer and almost drought conditions prevailing during the cooler months.

Slow growing.