Instead of green foliage like the species this variety has powder blue foliage with silver undersides similar to brahea armata.
Chamaerops humilis cerifera blue mediterranean fan palm.
Habitat distribution spreads from spain and up through france across to italy and malta and then across toward southeastern europe.
The blue mediterranean fan palm which grows in the atlas mountains in morocco up to 1700 m 5600 ft.
Cerifa are a lovely pale blue color which becomes more vivid as they mature.
They start off with green leaves progressing to blue.
Some varieties are really silvery and incredibly ornamental.
It is very similar in appearance to the normal chamaerops humilis except that the narrow fan palm leaves are a different colour.
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.
8 1815 chamaerops is a genus of flowering plants in the family arecaceae the only currently fully accepted species is chamaerops humilis variously called european fan palm or the mediterranean dwarf palm it is one of the most cold hardy palms and is used in landscaping in temperate climates.
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