The parlor palm is a popular and attractive indoor palm. It gained a near-instant following for several good reasons. It’s well adapted to relatively low light, can handle lower temperatures, and grows in attractive clumps with light-textured foliage cloaking thin trunks. These factors make the parlor palm one of the most popular indoor palms.

It is possible to sometimes find single specimens, but most often the palms are grown in small clumps, so that they resemble palm-like shrubs in attractive pots. The parlor palm resembles areca palm due to similar leaflets and often sold as dwarf variety of areca palm for this reason. The fronds are popular in flower arrangements, since they can survive for up to 40 days after being cut from the plant. The parlor palm plant is non-toxic for animals and humans.