This palm has a solitary greyish trunk that is closely ringed and capped with a rounded crown of bluish-green fan-like fronds with stiff spiny stalks. It has small yellow bell-shaped flowers that appear in a long pendulous cluster during summer. 

Hardiness zones 9 to 11 

Brahea armata is naturally found in north-western Mexico growing on hillsides in poor well drained sandy to rocky soil. It prefers a open sunny position and is drought and mildly frost resistant.

The Blue Hesper Palm is a stately palm that is grown in parks and large gardens as a specimen or used in avenue plantings. It may be grown in a container when young and used as an indoor or glasshouse specimen. It is slow growing and establishes in 4 to 8 years, requiring poorer soils with low rainfall. Rich soils tend to slow the growth. ID 1023

Brahea (bra-HEE-ah) armata (arm-AH-tuh)

Arecaceae (ar-ek-AY-see-ee)	
(Palmae)
Palm Family