Needle Palm

Specimen plant, edge, understory shrub. Can be grown in a large container.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Old leaf bases form long stiff spines.

Provides good wildlife cover.

Moist-wet sites. Seep slope forests, regularly but shallowly inundated floodplains, seepage swamps especially associated with springs, hydric seepage slopes, and at times, some of the adjacent non-hydric slope, hydric hammock, moist upland bluffs adjacent to rivers.

• Interesting foliage, Thorns
• Attracts beetles.