| Life form | Tree |
| Family | Aracaceae |
| Origin | China, Japan |
| Ease of cultivation | Easy to grow plant |
| The size | From 60 cm to 1.5-2 m in the pot |
| Growth rate | Quite low, like most palm trees. |
| Lifespan | Perennial plant, over 10 years old |
| Temperature | In summer: the upper limit is + 75,2 ° F. The optimum temperature is + 18-21 ° F. Requires a cool wintering at a temperature of + 53,6-60,8 ° F, the minimum temperature is + 44,6 ° F. |
| Humidity | Unlike other palms, the shrimp is not as sensitive to humidity, but in summer it is useful to spray the leaves with soft, settled water. In winter, spraying is not required. |
| Lighting | A bright diffused light, but it also tolerates penumbra. It is best to place the plant in a tub near the western or eastern window and periodically rotate with respect to the light source. |
| The soil | Ready ground is suitable “Palm”. For a soil of own preparation to take: 2 parts of sod land, 2 parts of wet peat, 2 parts of humus (leafy earth), 1 part of coarse sand or perlite. For heavily overgrown plants is better to use heavier soil in a high content of turf land. Requires a pot with a hole. |
| Watering | Abundant in the summer, every 3 days, you need to pour the excess water from the pan. In winter, less often – once every 10 days, the soil in winter should be hardly damp. |
| Fertilizer | From spring to autumn, feed regularly every 2-4 weeks with a soluble fertilizer for palms |
| Reproduction | Probably propagation by seeds that are soaked for the night in water are sown in a mixture of peat and perlite and germinated under the film, deepening to a depth of 1 cm, at a temperature of 68-77 ° F. The first sheet appears in 2-3 months. Then remove the protective film. You can multiply by dividing the rhizome during transplantation, separating the lateral offspring with the roots. |
| Bloom | In the home culture almost does not bloom. In the nature of the inflorescence – short spikelets of cream flowers. |
| Transfer | In spring, every 4 years, if the roots appear on the surface of the soil or germinate from the bottom of the pot. Like all palms, it does not respond well to transplantation. In large specimens, it is sufficient to change the top layer of the soil annually. |
| Features of care | In the summer it is desirable to take out on the street. Requires regular (1 time per month) rubbing the leaves. The dried parts of the leaves must be cut off in time. The variegated forms of the canopy usually grow more slowly. |
| Difficulties | It is affected by a spider mites, chervets, and shields. Sometimes parasitic fungi cause the death of the apical bud. The leaves acquire a yellowish tinge with excessive light, and brown tips are formed in dry air. Leaves wilt when there is a lack of moisture in the over-dried soil, and to wilt and darken the leaves begin at too low a temperature. Young leaves disclosed earlier time when excess moisture or due pvrezhdeniya root systems. The growth of the palm tree slows down with insufficient nutrition. The lower leaves die with the age of the plant. This is a natural process. |
| Air cleaning | It cleans the air of pollutants well. |
| Toxicity | – |
