Some varieties are really silvery and incredibly ornamental.
Chamaerops humilis cerifera blue mediterranean fan palm.
Silvery forms seem to be a bit slower growing than normal chamaerops.
Cerifa are a lovely pale blue color which becomes more vivid as they mature.
Cerifera is a variety of the deer resistant european fan palm that hails from the atlas mountains of morocco where it grows up to 5 400 elevation.
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They start off with green leaves progressing to blue.
Instead of green foliage like the species this variety has powder blue foliage with silver undersides similar to brahea armata.
This article introduces the mediterranean fan palm chamaerops humilis a suckering fan palm that is native to southern europe along the mediterranean coast.
Habitat distribution spreads from spain and up through france across to italy and malta and then across toward southeastern europe.
Basically the same plant as chamaerops humilis except bluish silver leaves.