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Carpentaria Palm
Carpentaria acuminata
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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.
Carpentaria Palm - Carpentaria acuminata
Carpentaria acuminata is the fast, slender feather palm of the Top End, and in the right climate it is one of the quickest ways to build a tropical canopy line. A smooth grey ringed trunk carries a green crownshaft and an arching crown of glossy pinnate fronds whose leaflets are squared off at the tips, giving the crown a distinctly clean, architectural finish. It is chosen over an Alexandra or a Foxtail palm where height is wanted fast and the site is genuinely frost free.
Why Carpentaria Palm
Speed: One of the fastest growing feather palms available in Australia, adding height in a few seasons rather than a decade.
Slim footprint: The trunk stays narrow and the crown compact, so it can be planted close to buildings and in courtyards.
Clean crownshaft: Fronds shed cleanly from the smooth green crownshaft, so there is no skirt of dead material to remove by hand.
Australian native: Indigenous to the monsoon forests and swamp margins of the Northern Territory, so it is adapted to a wet season and dry season cycle.
Grouping habit: Reads best in clumps of three or five at staggered heights, a planting style this palm handles better than most.
Ideal Applications
Resort and pool planting: Sets a tropical canopy above pool decks and cabanas without a wide-spreading crown.
Driveway avenue: Planted in matched rows for a tall, slender colonnade in tropical coastal cities.
Narrow side gardens: Fits vertical green into corridors between buildings where a wider palm cannot go.
Understorey canopy: Planted in groups to shade tropical foliage plantings of heliconia, cordyline and philodendron.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m for a close-planted grove effect
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Best planted into warm soil, from the start of the wet season through to early autumn in tropical districts
Soil & Drainage: Rich, moisture-retentive soil that still drains. It tolerates seasonally wet ground far better than most palms but will not accept cold, sour, permanently saturated clay
Establishment Care: Water heavily and often through the first dry season, as this palm sulks and burns at the frond tips if allowed to dry out. Mulch generously to 100mm outside the trunk and apply a slow release palm fertiliser with added magnesium two or three times over the warm months.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 12m in cultivation, occasionally taller
Width: 2.5 to 3.5m crown spread
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Part shade when young, full sun once the trunk is formed
Native to: Northern Territory, Australia
Flower Colour: Cream, insignificant, followed by red 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.







