Rhapis excelsa

This popular, clumping palm has easily distinguishable divided or star-shaped leaves. Slender trunks are covered with leaf scars and dark brown fibers as well. It can be grown indoors in containers as a houseplant or positioned in a landscape to provide volume, texture and deep greens to the landscape's palette. Its species name, excelsa, means 'elevated' or 'tall', despite the fact that this palm often reaches to only 10 feet tall on average! Because of this, it is often an understory plant in habitat.