Washingtonia occurs as genus of palms, native to the southwestern United States (in southern California, southwest Arizona) and nor'-west Mexico (in northern Baja California and Sonora).

It is fan palms (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with a leaves with the bare leafstalk terminating within a fat fan of many leaflets. A flowers are within a heavy inflorescence, by having the fruits maturing into a little blackish-black drupe 6-1Millimeter across by having a thinly layer of sweetly flesh all over the individual seed.

There are deuce coinage: Washingtonia filifera (Lindl. passee André) H. The. Wendl. California Washingtonia, Northern Washingtonia, or California Fan Palm. Tree to Xxiii m tall; leaves big, by owning leafstalk as much as Deuce m yearn, & leaflets as much as Two m yearn. Inflorescence to Five m yearn; flowers white; fruit ellipse. Southwestern America, upright into extreme nor'-west Mexico. Washingtonia robusta H. The. Wendl. Mexican Washingtonia or Southern Washingtonia. Tree to Xxv m tall; leaves little, by using leafstalk as much as Single m hanker, & leaflets as much as One m hanker. Inflorescence to Ternion m yearn; flowers blanch orange-pink; fruit orbicular. Northwest Mexico.

Washingtonia Palms near Twentynine Palms, California, USA. A fruit is eatable, & was utilized by Native American people as a minor food source. It is too eaten by birds, which disperse a seeds in their muck fallowing swallowing the fruit fiber.

Each mintage come cultivated when cosmetic trees, widely implanted inside California particularly, however as well in the Mediterranean region in southern Europe, and area of Australia.

A genus is known as when George Washington.