Bamboo palm

The Bamboo palm is native to Mexico and Central America where it thrives as an understory palm in rainforests and is often spread by means of underground runners, forming clonal colonies.

Chamaedorea seifrizii is a relatively small graceful palm with densely clumping, bamboo-like stems and feathery fronds. Canes can be up to 0.4 inches in diameter. The delicate-looking, lacy leaves are 24-35 inches long with leaflets up to 15 inches long at the top of slender, cane-like stems that cluster together. Leaf colour is a deep bluish green.

The flowers are produced in inflorescences; Chamaedorea seifrizii are dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The fruit is an orange or red drupe 0.2 to 0.8 inches in diameter.

According to NASA, the bamboo palm removes formaldahyde and is also said to act as a natural humidifier.

The name suggests that it is related somehow to the bamboo plant that furniture is made out of, but they are in very different plant families. Palms are in the arecaceae family of flowering trees/plants and bamboo is in the poaceae family of true grasses.