Pindo Palm
Butia odorata
A cold-hardy palm with arching blue-grey fronds on a stout, knobby trunk and fruit that makes jelly. Give it full sun and soil that drains, and site it away from paving, since the ripe fruit drops.
- Mature size
- 15 × 10 ft
- 4.5 × 3 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 8a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Apr–May
Pindo Palm at its mature size
A mature Pindo Palm grows to about 15 ft tall and 10 ft wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, UF/IFAS Extension, The Tree Center.
Through the year
What Pindo Palm looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Arching feathery blue-gray fronds over a knobby trunk.
Growing Pindo Palm
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Plains and Mountain West, and California.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Privacy screen, small space, and specimen
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Southern Brazil and Uruguay
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Pindo Palm, that’s about 10 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Pindo Palm in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other palms
Sago Palm
Windmill PalmPindo Palm
Cabbage PalmettoAll drawn to the same scale.