The name comes from the greek "trachis" = hard and "carpus = seed, the hardness of the small kidney-shaped seed, the word is rather specific dedicated to the English botanist Robert Fortune. Originally China's central and eastern Europe, this palm is pushed up the Himalayas at 2,400 m altitude, in fact, this palm is the most widespread in North Italy and one of the most cultivated throughout the country.
E 'a palm tree with single trunk, erect and slender, up to 12-15 m or more high and diameter of 1-2 dm, it is wholly or largely covered with fibrous leaf sheaths and a dark brown felt.
The leaves are persistent through a hose under the crown after desiccation, and have dark green palmate, the flap is 60-90 cm wide, 40-60 cm long and is led by a 50 cm long petiole or little more rough to the touch, with sharp edges and terminating in a tab lunate irregularly toothed. The segments of the leaf are numbers 25-50, 30-50 cm long and unevenly divided between them engraved up to 3 / 4 of the flap; have bifid apex with recordings of a few cm. 
spadices The flower is often outstanding and measure between 50 to 80 cm and have short, stiff branches, each with a small paper basal spathe. The fruits are small (1-2 cm and kidney-shaped) are weakly furrowed surface, greenish-yellow at first, blacks or purple when ripe, waxy and glaugescenti. 
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