Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Attractive but is it a Palm, 0 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
You may want to compare this to the Cyclanthus genus. This group looks very much like palm trees but are infact more closely related to the pandanus family. They sometimes climb like a philodendron but have palm tree like leaves. A very interesting and very over looked group of plants native to South America. They are rarely seen in the US. I believe this is due to how sensitive they are to cold and how uncommon they are to find. The most common is the panama hat plant.