Bismarck palm
Bismarckia nobilis Hildebrandt & H.Wendl.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- 4.3 m
Arecaceae
Also called Bismarck Palm
Formerly Medemia nobilis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. & W. MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 10–40 ft; UF/IFAS 30–60 ft
- Spread
- 3.7 m to 4.9 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- BrownRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.6 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; UF/IFAS -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- Satrana be
- Spanish
- Palma de Bismarck de Madagascar
- Chinese
- 霸王櫚, 霸王椰子, 霸王棕
- Chinese (China)
- 霸王棕
- Russian
- Бисмаркия благородная, Пальма Бисмарка
- French
- Palmier de Bismarck
- Thai
- ตาลฟ้า
- Hungarian
- Bismarck-pálma
- Arabic
- بسماركية نبيلة, نخيل بسماركي
- Portuguese
- Palmeira azul
- Hebrew
- ביסמרקיה אצילה
- Finnish
- kanslerinpalmu
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Bismarckia nobilis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.