Spindle palm trees have beautiful foliage either way, so you won’t be losing out with this plant! But if you want to try to encourage flowering and fruiting, you can always look into moving the plant to an outdoor space like a patio or deck for the warmer months. Unfortunately, growing a spindle palm indoors means that it’s very unlikely to flower and fruit.
If the flowers are fertilized, they have the potential to grow into orange-red oval fruits. Spindles are monoecious plants, meaning that male and female flowers both grow on the same tree. The stalks branch and grow just below the crown shaft. One of the benefits of growing spindle palms outdoors is that you’ll be rewarded with beautiful cream-colored flower stalks that grow to up to three feet long. Good care is rewarded with beautiful flowers (when outdoors) Frost damages the foliage, and exposure to prolonged cold or extreme temperatures can cause it to die. Spindle palms do the best in USDA hardiness zone 10, outside of which they’ll do much better as an indoor container plant throughout most of the year. Spindle palms are also tolerant of salt and drought (once established), which is why you’ll see them a lot on beachside properties and sandy environments. As a landscaping plant, the mix of hardiness and slow growth makes them easy to move if you decide you have a better location for it or if they aren’t doing well in their current spot. The spindle palm growth rate is slow, so they won’t outgrow their containers easily and they won’t immediately take over your yard. You’ll find gardeners in warm and cool climates love growing these for different reasons, not the least of which is their ease of care. Spindle palm trees are a species of palm that’s much hardier than other members of the same family or even genus (like the bottle palm, for example), which makes it easy to grow indoors or in containers if you don’t have much room for landscaping.
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