| Shape | Upright. |
| Landscape | Urban or street tree in southern/warm and dry climates, in mass plantings or as a specimen. |
| Propagation | Seed. |
| Cultivation | Plant in dry, well-draining loamy to sandy soil in full sun. Can tolerate a wide variety of soils which makes it a great hardy urban or street tree. |
| Habitat | Dry open desert savannahs. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Coarse, woody light tan palm bark. Solitary trunk spanning approximately 0.3 - 0.6 m thick. |
| Leaf Description | The leaves have a petiole up to 1 m long, and a palmate fan of sage green to yellowish-green leaflets up to 1 m long and 1 m wide. Matured and dead fronds hang down like a 'hula skirt'-like canopy below healthy live fronds. |
| Flower Description | Inflorescences up to 3 m long with numerous small, pale orange-pink flowers. |
| Fruit Description | Spherical bluish-black drupes, 6 - 8 mm diameter; edible, though thin-fleshed. |
| Texture Description | Coarse. |
