The Bismarck Palm is a flowering tropical palm tree native to Madagascar where it grows in open grassland. The genus is named for the first chancellor of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, and the epithet, nobilis, is Latin for “noble.
The Bismarck Palm is the only species of this genus. The plant grows as a solitary trunk, gray to tan in color, 12 to 16 inches in diameter at maturity and slightly bulging at the base. In their natural habitat, they can reach 82 feet in height but usually get no taller than 40 feet in cultivation.
The rounded leaves are up to 9 feet wide and divided to a third their length into 20 or more stiff, once-folded segments. Fibers persist between the leaf segments.
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