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small parlor palm Chamaedorea elegansChamaedorea elegans Chamaedorea elegans, widely known as the Parlour Palm, is a small understory palm with fine, feathered fronds and a naturally compact habit. Slender green stems carry narrow leaflets along arching fronds, giving the plant a soft layered outline as it matures. Several young plants are often grown together in one pot to create a fuller crown from an early stage. Growth is slow and steady: older stems gain height gradually while fresh
Chamaedorea elegans
Chamaedorea elegans, widely known as the Parlour Palm, is a small understory palm with fine, feathered fronds and a naturally compact habit. Slender green stems carry narrow leaflets along arching fronds, giving the plant a soft layered outline as it matures.
Several young plants are often grown together in one pot to create a fuller crown from an early stage. Growth is slow and steady: older stems gain height gradually while fresh fronds rise from the crown. Indoors, Chamaedorea elegans stays manageable for many years when the root zone remains lightly moist, airy, and protected from cold stress.
Fine fronds and parlour palm habit
- Small palm with fine, pinnate green fronds and a soft upright crown
- Slow-growing container plant, often grown as several young stems together
- Native to Mexico and Central America, where it grows as an understory palm
- Adapts to bright indirect light and lighter shade indoors
- Pet-friendly according to ASPCA listings for cats and dogs
Growth habit, origin and frond detail
Chamaedorea elegans belongs to the palm family, Arecaceae. Its native range extends from Mexico into Central America, where it grows below taller vegetation. Its slim stems, shade-tolerant fronds and steady response to filtered indoor light match that understory habitat.
The fronds are pinnate, with narrow leaflets arranged along a central axis. Each new frond adds height and width gradually, so the plant develops by layering fresh leaves above older ones. Mature plants may flower under good conditions, producing small yellowish inflorescences, although indoor flowering depends on plant age, light and overall growth.
Keeping Chamaedorea elegans evenly green
- Light: Keep in bright indirect light to light shade. Direct midday sun can scorch the thin leaflets.
- Watering: Allow the top layer to partly dry before the next thorough watering. Keep the root ball lightly moist, then let excess water drain fully.
- Substrate: Use a loose houseplant mix with good drainage. Fine bark, coco fibre, perlite, or mineral particles help keep oxygen around the roots.
- Temperature: Hold temperatures above 15°C for steady indoor growth. Protect from cold draughts, cold windowsills, and sudden temperature drops.
- Humidity: Average indoor humidity is usually tolerated, but dry air can increase brown leaf tips. A humidifier or grouped plants can help during heated months.
- Feeding: A diluted balanced fertiliser every 4–6 weeks in spring and summer is enough for this slow palm.
- Repotting: Move up only once the pot is well filled with roots. Move up by one pot size and keep the stem bases at the same level.
- Pruning: Remove fully dry lower fronds at the base. Keep cuts away from the central growing point of each active stem.
- Warm-season outdoor placement: A sheltered, shaded position can suit it during warm weather above 15°C. Acclimate gradually and bring it indoors before cool nights return.
- Propagation: Commercial propagation is mainly by seed. Multi-planted pots can be separated when stems divide cleanly with their own roots.
Brown tips, yellow fronds and mite checks
- Brown leaflet tips: Often linked to dry air, irregular watering, salts in the substrate, or cold draughts. Check the watering pattern and flush the pot occasionally with clean water.
- Yellowing lower fronds: A single ageing frond is normal. Several yellow fronds at once point to waterlogged roots, cold substrate, or depleted conditions.
- Pale, stretched growth: Very low usable light produces weaker, looser fronds. Move the plant closer to a bright window with filtered light.
- Fine webbing or speckled leaves: Check for spider mites, especially in warm dry air. Rinse foliage and treat early before damage spreads.
Cane clump and pruning notes
Young Chamaedorea elegans plants are often planted in groups for a fuller pot. In a shared container, stronger stems may gain more light and space while smaller stems slow down. This is a normal part of how grouped palms develop over time.
Pet safety and handling
ASPCA lists Chamaedorea elegans as non-toxic to cats and dogs. Chewed fronds can still upset sensitive stomachs, so trim damaged growth and discourage pets from grazing.
Name origin and species background
The accepted botanical name is Chamaedorea elegans Mart., in the family Arecaceae. The genus name Chamaedorea is derived from Greek elements commonly interpreted as “ground” and “gift”, referring to the low stature of many species in the genus. The species epithet elegans means elegant, matching the plant’s fine fronds and restrained growth habit.
Chamaedorea elegans shows soft feathered fronds, slender green stems and a compact palm profile.
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Justice and Grace, God's desire for our lives
Format: Kindle
Tim Keller does another great job in writing a book that will be helpful for Pastors and laymen. He takes the issue of God's Justice and guides us through a discussion of what it justice means Biblically and how do we apply it today. There are many verses about justice and especially about helping the poor in the Old and New Testament. Many are in the Old Testament and people often dismiss them thinking that the Old Testament has been done away with and replaced with the New Testament.
But the bottom line is this, the poor we will have with us always and how do we deal with them? How do we help them with their issues of hunger, lack of resources, lack of advocates standing up for them with the judicial system and society at large. What also do we do with the "year of jubilee" where the debts of the poor are forgiven and they are given a fresh start. What should we do with that today.
Keller takes us through a discussion of the definition of Justice, why the Old Testament is still valid, what does Jesus say and how do we treat our neighbors. He reminds us that the Old Testament, specifically the nation of Israel, was a Theocracy style of government. So how do we in a democracy deal with the poor since it is a completely different style of government than a Theocracy. What is the point of justice? What should we do about standing in the gap for our neighbors who are poor, or do we ignore them and let the government deal with them through welfare?
There are deep theological issues here and deep moral issues as well. How do you respond to the poor? How do you handle your resources? What do you do regarding Charity? Why do you act charitably?
Keller also talks a good bit about how our young people are moving back into a culture of "volunteerism" and the benefits that has on society as well as on themselves. But the real issue comes down to the heart issue of why do they volunteer to help the poor.
Wrapped in all of this is a discussion also about "God's Grace". Because some people feel that justice might just mean that we let people suffer in their poverty because they bring it on themselves. But the Bible is clear. Our task is to help the poor, the widow, the orphan, etc. These people are precious to God and thus should be precious to us.
This is a quick read, but a very needed read for the "Western Church" today. You will be forced to look at the role of "Deacon" in the church and how that role was put together to serve the poor. You will be left with this question, how does my church stack up in regards to reaching the poor? How would God feel we have done in serving the poor and providing "justice" for them.
Enjoy!
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Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2010
★★★★★ 5
A Slim Book with a Big Message
The book is an attempt, Keller writes, to connect a person's Christian faith with the desire to help people in need and do justice in all aspects of one's life. He is writing for four groups of people, he says. These are:
-- Those, especially the young, who are active in volunteering and want to help the poor but their concern does not affect how they spend money or plan their careers.
-- Those who don't see, as Jonathan Edwards said, that when the Spirit enables us to understand what Christ has done for us, "the result is a life poured out in deeds of justice and compassion for the poor."
-- Younger evangelicals who have expanded their mission to include social justice along with evangelism.
-- People like the atheist Christopher Hitchins who believe that religion "poisons everything."
This book, Keller writes, is for "the orthodox (Christian) to see how central to the Scripture's message is justice for the poor and marginalized. I also want to challenge those who do not believe in Christianity to see the Bible not as a repressive text, but as the basis for the modern understanding of human rights."
Keller spends the early parts of his book discussing how justice for the poor, the immigrant, the widow and orphan was central to the concept of mercy (in Hebrew, chesedh), justice (mishpat) and righteousness (tzadeqah). Mercy has to do with aligning our attitude with that of a merciful God. Justice is aligning our actions -- equitable dealings with people -- with a just God's. Righteousness in the Hebrew context has more to do with right relationships than obeying a set of rules, as modern Christians often think of it.
Someone who is "right with God (is) therefore committed to putting right all other relationships in life." (Alec Motyer) Righteousness is "day to day living in which a person conducts all relationships in family and society with fairness.While tzadeqah is primarily about being in a right relationship with God, the righteous life that results is profoundly social. (See Job 29:12-17, 31-13-28.
Keller details the Hebrew law's provision for exercising justice. These are:
-- Shemitta, or release. The practice of the Sabbath year, every seventh year releasing people from debts or servitude. Deut. 15:1-2
-- Gleanings. The practice of not harvesting fields to their borders. Keller suggests that modern businesses could imitate this practice by not maximizing profits, thus giving price relief to their customers, and not paying workers the lowest possible wages. Leviticus 19:9-10, 23:22
-- Tithing for the priests and the upkeep of the temple. Every third year the tithe was put in public storehouses for the poor, "the aliens, the fatherless, and the widows." Deut. 14:28-29. This makes me think that churches should practice this in some form by systematically committing a portion of its receipts to serving the poor and needy.
-- Year of Jubilee. The practice of every 49th or 50th year of forgiving debts and returning land to its ancestral owner. Leviticus 25:10, 23, 27:21.
These practices helped meet the needs of the poor and helped prevent permanent cycles of poverty.
The three causes of poverty, according to the Law are oppression, calamity and personal moral failure. The biblical emphasis is usually on the larger structural factors -- corruption, oppressive economic systems and natural disasters. The exercise of justice, however, never distinguishes between the three. That is, no matter why a person is poor, the righteous person should care for him.
Well, that's the Old Testament,, some might say. But Jesus showed the same concern for the poor and disadvantaged, if not more so. His response to John in Matthew 11:4-5, and the beginning of his ministry in Luke 4. As Eugene Peterson writes in The Message, the Word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood. He identified himself with the poor and showed special concern for children, aliens, women.
Jesus and the prophets all "leveled the charge that while the people attended worship, observed all religious regulations and took pride in their biblical knowledge, nevertheless they took advantage of the weak and vulnerable."
Vulnerable people need three levels of help -- relief, development and social reform. Relief is the immediate problem (paying the rent, for instance); development is to help then move beyond dependency (job training); social reform is correcting systemic injustice (redlining).Social reform likely requires the creation of extra-church or parachurch organizations. Churches also can partner with existing organizations or churches that operate in vulnerable populations.
Evangelism and social justice "should exist in an asymmetrical, inseparable relationship. Evangelism is the most basic and radical ministry possible to a human being ... not because the spiritual is more important than the physical, but because the eternal is more important than the temporal. If there is a God, and if life with him for eternity is based on having a saving relationship with him, then the most loving thing anyone can do for one's neighbor is help him or her to a saving faith in that God, Keller writes.
Doing justice is inseparably connected to preaching grace. One way is that the gospel produces a concern for the poor. The other is that deeds of justice gain credibility for the preaching of the gospel.
This book is a slim one that carries a heavy message. It challenges us comfortable churchgoers to examine our community and ask whether we are of any importance to the wider community. If our "church" ceased to exist, would anyone miss us? What are we doing in obedience to God's commands to serve the poor, the widow, the orphan, the prisoner, the hungry? There is a lot here to reflect on and for a small group(s) to discuss and apply. Unfortunately, I contacted the publisher and there is no accompanying study guide.
Keller is pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2011
★★★★★ 4
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These work really well. Price is great. My kids have not complained about the taste or any issues with chewing them. No sleep issues or grogginess upon waking.
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