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IllustrationThe first image is a studio illustration showing the plant and pot shape. The other photograph is of our own stock at the nursery — those are what the plant actually looks like on the bench.
Palms & Trees
Areca Palm
Dypsis lutescens
The areca is the most planted palm in Pakistan for good reason: it is cheap, it clumps densely enough to screen a boundary, and the arching feathery fronds on golden-yellow stems look good year round.
Indoors it needs the brightest spot you have and humidity, or the tips brown. Outdoors in partial shade it is close to trouble-free. For screening, plant clumps at one-metre centres and they knit together within two seasons.
- Best-value palm for dense screening — plant at 1 m centres
- Arching feathery fronds on golden-yellow stems
- Indoors it needs bright light and humidity, or tips brown
Rs 2,050for the 18 inch pot
Inclusive of pot and mix. Delivery Rs 350, free over Rs 5,000.
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At a glance
- Mature size
- 3–6 m outdoors, 2 m indoors
- Growth rate
- Moderate to fast
- Difficulty
- Easy to keep
- Around pets
- Non-toxic — safe if chewed
Partial shadeBright lightScreeningCourtyardAir purifying
How to look after your Areca Palm
Written for Pakistani conditions — long hot summers, dry winter air, and hard tap water. Follow this rather than advice written for a temperate climate.
- Light
- Most prefer full sun once established; indoor palms want bright, filtered light.
- Water
- Deeply twice a week in summer, weekly in winter. Palms dislike both drought and standing water.
- Humidity
- Moderate. Indoor palms benefit from raised humidity in winter.
- Soil
- Sandy, free-draining soil. Palms rot at the crown in heavy, wet ground.
- Feeding
- Specialist palm feed containing magnesium and manganese, three times a year. Ordinary NPK causes yellow banding.
- Temperature
- 15–48°C for outdoor species. Protect indoor palms below 12°C.
If something goes wrong
Yellow bands on older fronds
Why it happens: Magnesium or potassium deficiency — very common in palms.
What to do: Apply a palm-specific feed. Do not remove yellowing fronds; the palm is still drawing nutrients from them.
Brown, dry frond tips
Why it happens: Dry air, salt build-up, or under-watering.
What to do: Water deeply, flush the soil, and raise humidity for indoor palms.
Soft, foul-smelling crown
Why it happens: Crown rot from water sitting in the growing point.
What to do: Usually fatal. Prevent it by never watering into the crown.
Arecaceae
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They differ in leaf shape, mature size and colour — compare them side by side before you choose.
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