Mexican fan palm
Washingtonia robusta
Kew's current name: Washingtonia filifera var. robusta (H.Wendl.) Parish
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 23 m
- wide
- 2.7 m
Arecaceae
Also called Mexican Fan Palm, Washington palm
Formerly Neowashingtonia robusta, Pritchardia robusta, Washingtonia gracilis
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
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico (SC. & S. Baja California)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 15 m to 30 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Palma blanca, Palma Washington
- German
- Mexikanische Washingtonpalme
- Chinese
- 大絲葵, 華盛頓葵, 壯幹華盛頓椰子
- Portuguese
- Palmeira-de-leque-mexicana
- Czech
- washingtonie statná
- Hebrew
- ושינגטוניה חסונה
- Russian
- Вашингтония крепкая
- Japanese
- オキナヤシモドキ
- Korean
- 워싱톤야자
- Chinese (China)
- 大丝葵
- French
- Palmier jupon du Mexique
- Italian
- palma a ventaglio messicana
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Washingtonia robusta (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.