Trachycarpus fortunei Wagnerianus Saruma 'White Lightning' is a slow

'White Lightning' is a slow spreader that is perfectly at home around ferns

even to the point of mixing in small gravel in poorly drained soils

Selected from seedlings that survived our 1984/85 winter of -9 degrees F

and has a little red neck (at the base of each petiole)

The clumps are adorned at the leaf bases with September-produced

Trachycarpus fortunei Wagnerianus Saruma 'White Lightning' is a slowFor years, this wonderful palm masqueraded as Trachycarpus wagnerianus, but, as it turned out, it was botanically described from a cultivated specimen (a no no) and never known from the wild. This is simply a seed cultivar of Trachycarpus fortunei, albeit a truly fine one. In addition to proving very winter hardy, it makes a 20' tall trunk exactly like typical Trachycarpus fortunei, except the stiff round leaves are stunningly beautiful and much