Beamer’s Stuff

Washingtonia filifera (filifera - Latin “thread-bearing”, also known as Desert Fan Palm’, American Cotton palms, or Arizona fan Palm, or California fan Palm) is a palm native to the desert oases of Central, southern and southwestern Arizona, southern Nevada, extreme northwest Mexico and inland deserts of southern California. It grows up to 23 m (exceptionally 30 m) tall in good growing conditions and is the only palm native to the contiguous United States West of San Antonio Texas. The leaves have a petiole up to 2 m long, bearing a fan of leaflets 1.5-2 m long, with white, thread-like fibers between the segments.