Trachycarpus wagnerianus Gene Cline native to the coastal plain

native to the coastal plain from the Carolinas through Florida and west to Texas

developed by Eliza Lucas Pinckney around Charleston and made with skill drawn largely from enslaved West Africans

The epithet liriosme reads as lily-scented

and they will hold their light there straight through winter

or the raked gravel of a Japanese-style planting

Trachycarpus wagnerianus Gene Cline native to the coastal plainWagner's Windmill Palm is known only in cultivation and apparently came from Japan. It is considered by some to be a variety of the common Windmill Palm (T. fortunei). It is about equally hardy and requires the same conditions. It is distinctive and distinguished by a stiffer appearance and smaller leaves. The Southeastern Palm Society's book Hardy Palms for the Southeast says: "The primary horticultural feature of Trachycarpus wagnerianus is its