Elegant, tall and feathery, it has distinctive plant features like slender grey trunk, green crown shaft along with a graceful dark green crown formed by its arching fronds, and is naturally occurring in lowland areas near lakes and rivers.
Stem slender, smooth, ringed with old leaf scars (usually the leaf scars are spaced further apart on faster growing specimens).
Fronds pinnate, V-shaped, spirally-arranged, about 2m long, dark green above and bluish-green beneath, with close to 100 leaflets to each frond.
