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Amiya Baratan

How to Care For Ponytail Palm Plants — The Perfect Eye Candy for a Lacklustre Corner

A ponytail palm in a terracotta planter.

If you're looking for a houseplant that's on the eye-catching, quirky side of the tracks, look no further than the ponytail palm.

Also known as beaucarnea recurvata, the ponytail palm is native to Mexico and features stringy cartoonesque leaves that sure enough resemble a ponytail. It's almost like having a comparatively mini, slim-leaved palm tree growing right inside your home and experts tell us that it's actually quite low lift to care for. In fact, it's one of the easiest indoor palm trees to look after.

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