Welcome to the International Palm Society web site - the Internet's comprehensive source of information on every aspect of growing palms. This web site includes extensive information on palm horticulture, including information about recent issues of the Palms Journal, gallery of images, links to other sites, and much more.

The new edition of the ground breaking Genera Palmarum - 750 pages - is a complete overhaul of the 1987 edition, and includes chapters on the structure of palms, pollen, cytoloy, chemistry, fossils, evolution, phylogeny, natural history and biogeography, and the classification based on the latest molecular evidence.

The book is available to IPS members for $99 - a 33% discount over the $150 cover price. If you are NOT an IPS member, we encourage you to join now in order to take advantage of this attractive price.

Click here to review the book online incuding images of sample pages.

Click here to order now.

Web enhancements - A number of enhancements are planned for this web site over the next few months. Please check back regularly for updates.

About the IPS

To enjoy the features of this web site, we invite you to become an IPS member. Click here to join or renew now. If you are not an IPS member, you are of course still welcome to use and browse this web site. However, we hope you will join!