A very popular palm from Australia with grass green, feather shaped leaves with silver undersides and slender crown shafts. The small bright red fruits are produced in large quantities.
The King- or Alexander palm will grow in a wide range of climates from tropical to cool temperate, and does excellently as an indoor palm given bright light.
Trunk gray, up to ca. 30 m tall. Leaves ca. 10, up to 2.5 m long, pinnae ca. 80 on each side, up to 80 cm long and 5 cm wide, whitish or ash-colored on lower surface, sheath green. Inflorescences up to 70 cm long, with pendulous rachillae to the fourth order; staminate flowers white or cream, 5-6 mm long, stamens 9-16. Fruit red, 1-1.4 cm long, 0.8-1.1 cm in diameter.