Lady Palm Flowering: Why You Need Male and Female Plants for Seeds

Lady Palm Flowering: Why You Need Male and Female Plants for Seeds

Rhapis excelsa is dioecious—male and female flowers on separate plants. Your flowering plant needs a partner of the opposite sex to produce seeds. Female flowers have a 3-part pistil; male stalks are longer and emerge from leaf tops.

Easier propagation: divide underground stolons (suckers) that form around the parent. Some plants may be monoecious (both sexes), but that's less common.