Chinese Windmill Palm, Windmill Palm                tru-kee-KAR-pus for-TUN-e-i

• Broadleaf evergreen tree, a palm, may grow to 30 ft (~9 m) tall, but usually shorter, trunk about 10 cm in diameter, usually narrowest at the base, clothed in loose, stringy, brown-black fibers from disintegrating leaf sheaths.   Leaves circular, fan-shaped, about 1.25 m across, deeply incised and pleated, with 40-50 segments, ends drooping; petiole 1 m long, margin sharply serrated to only rough and bumpy.  Flowers yellow.  Fruits rounded, about 1 cm, black, covered with a white bloom.
• Sun to partial shade.  grows in many soils except wet, tolerant to drought, wind and salt.   Small plants can be grown inside in indirect bright light.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 7.     Native to northern Burma and central and eastern China.
• Oregon State Univ. campus: east side of Ocean Administration, 26th and Arnold Way.