Editing Phoenix loureiroi (section)

===Culture:===
Forms of ''Phoenix loureiroi'' are particularly attractive as garden subjects, more so the highly desirable silvery forms, and not commonly seen in cultivation, collections. With their cycad like textured trunks and dense wide long very plumose spiny leaflets they lend texture, form and structure.  These along with ''P. sylvestris'', ''P. roebelenii'' and P. rupicola are the few easiest Phoenix species for high warmth, humidity, rainfall suffering no fungal problems at all. Sunny, well drained, but moist position, can take a fair amount of dense shade from low thicket as a seedling or juvenile. Grows quickest with warm temperatures, high humidity and high summer rainfall, short dry cool winter in sub-tropical to tropical areas.
Some forms from higher altitudes can also tolerate a few degrees of very short lived annual frost events especially as more mature specimens. With regular thorough watering and feeding on good deep soil it's a reasonably fast robust grower in cultivation. Faster in tropical or subtropical climates, where it tends to get much taller with a larger though as characteristically attractive canopy and straighter trunk. Similarly it thrives on neglect where it will form an extremely slow growing thick set reclining short clump or single specimen with a much reduced in width sharply recurved canopy, or if the soil and exposure and care are particularly bad no trunk at all. Highly ornamental even as a juvenile.
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[[File:Phoenix_loureirii02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''P. loureiroi'']]
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