Random plant event: Rhapis excelsa flowering

This had me worried, a little bit, because for some reason I was under the impression that Rhapis die after flowering. This is a problem because, obviously, the plant hasn't sold yet, and it's big enough and expensive enough that that's a lot of money for the business to have to eat. But it's okay. Momentary confusion with bamboo. I got better. The plant will be fine.


Thus far, not much to look at, really, and the flowers are actually surprisingly similar to Chamaedorea flowers (which one can see here and here and here). I guess it hadn't occurred to me that there might be a kinship.


It's possible that the flowers will get more colorful or something later on, in which case I'll do a follow-up post of some kind, but this is what there's been so far.


The Rhapis excelsa profile post can be found here.