Rhapis (Noun)
Meaning
Genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Rhapis was known in the early 18th century, having been collected and brought back by Western botanists, most notably in China.
- This little book features palms like the popular rhapis that make wonderful container gardens and smaller landscape gardens.
- Botanical or horticultural Gardens will pay big money for a mature or rare rhapis and other extremely difficult to locate specimen palms.
- If you only have a little room on the floor for palms try using different levels with lots of stairs, place smaller palms like the rhapis on lower levels and larger palms on top.
- Most common in the West are the much bigger, more expensive rhapis and trachycarpas, with unproven "cold hardiness".