Kentia palm
কেনটিয়া পাম
Howea forsteriana (F.Muell.) Becc.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- 6.0 m
Arecaceae
Also called Kentia Palm
Formerly Denea forsteriana, Grisebachia forsteriana, Kentia forsteriana
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Lord Howe I.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 10 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 8–12 m; Wikipedia 10–10 m
- Spread
- 6.0 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 4–8 m; Wikipedia 6–6 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Palma Kentia
- Czech
- kencie Forsterova
- Japanese
- ヒロハケンチャヤシ
- Russian
- Ховея Форстера
- Italian
- kenzia
- Estonian
- Forsteri kentiapalm
- French
- Kentia
- Polish
- kencja strzechowa
- German
- Forstersche Kentiapalme
- Finnish
- pikkukentiapalmu
- Chinese (China)
- 平叶棕
- Slovak
- hovea Forsterova
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Howea forsteriana (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.