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Nursery Direct
Christmas Palm
Adonidia merrillii
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Christmas Palm - Adonidia merrillii
Compact enough for a suburban courtyard yet unmistakably tropical, Adonidia merrillii holds a neat crown of arching pinnate fronds above a smooth green crownshaft and a slender ringed trunk. The name comes from the clusters of bright red fruit that colour up around midsummer in the southern hemisphere. It is chosen where a royal palm or coconut would be far too big and where a self-cleaning, tidy palm is needed near paving.
Why Christmas Palm
Small scale: It tops out well under most tropical palms, so it fits courtyards, side gardens and pool surrounds.
Self-cleaning fronds: Old fronds drop cleanly of their own accord, which removes the need for regular trimming access.
Red fruit display: Heavy hanging clusters turn scarlet and last for weeks, an unusual feature among palms.
Slim trunk: A narrow, smooth grey trunk means the palm takes up almost no ground space at the base.
Group planting: It is often grown as a multiple planting, giving a clumped grove effect from one position.
Ideal Applications
Poolside and courtyard: Its self-cleaning habit and modest litter make it well behaved around water and paving.
Tropical entry statement: Paired either side of a doorway or gate for symmetry.
Narrow side gardens: The compact crown works where wider palms would overhang a neighbour or a path.
Resort-style bed planting: Used in threes at staggered heights above heliconias, cordylines and gingers.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m centres for a palm row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Spring and summer, into warm soil
Soil & Drainage: Rich, free-draining soil with plenty of organic matter. It needs warmth and humidity and is strictly frost free, suiting the tropics and warm coastal subtropics only.
Establishment Care: Water two to three times a week through the first warm season and keep the root zone evenly moist, since palms establish roots almost entirely in warm weather. Mulch generously away from the trunk, feed with a controlled release palm fertiliser containing magnesium and potassium twice a year, and shelter from cold wind while young.
Plant Details
Height: 5 to 7m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen palm
Light: Full sun; tolerates part shade when young
Native to: The Philippines
Flower Colour: Cream and insignificant, followed by showy scarlet fruit
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







