Parlour palm
చమడోరియా ఎలిగాన్స్
Chamaedorea elegans Mart.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.9 m
- wide
- 1.0 m
Arecaceae
Also called Parlour Palm, Neanthe bella palm, Parlor palm
Formerly Chamaedorea helleriana, Chamaedorea pulchella, Collinia elegans, Kunthia deppei, and 5 more
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to HondurasKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS part; NC State Extension part, shade
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.3 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; NC State Extension 2–7.5 ft
- Spread
- 81 cm to 1.2 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; NC State Extension 2–3 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS yellow; NC State Extension green, orange, red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- 7 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 15 °C; NC State Extension -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Camedor de cambray, Palmera de salón, Pacaya
- Czech
- chamedorea zdobná
- Japanese
- テーブルヤシ
- Chinese
- 袖珍椰子, 秀丽竹节椰, 袖珍椰
- Chinese (China)
- 袖珍椰
- Italian
- camadorea
- Russian
- Хамедорея изящная
- Portuguese
- Camedórea-elegante
- Hebrew
- כמדוריאה עדינה
- Finnish
- sirovuoripalmu
- Slovak
- chamédorea úhľadná
- Turkish
- Dağ Palmiyesi
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Chamaedorea elegans (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.