Ponytail Palm Trees
One gallon Elephant Foot Palm Trees grow slowly into large specimens with a green top that hangs down like a pony tail. The Ponytail Bottle Palm trees can develop reddish-green colors on the leaves, and the base of the Elephant Foot Palm Tree (Ponytail Palm Tree) grows into a large swollen mass, similar to an elephant foot. This palm tree is an excellent container plant of indoors, and the uniquely shaped ornamental Ponytail Bottle Palm tree is frequently used outside near pools during the summer and moved inside during the winter to avoid freezing temperatures, and the Ponytail Bottle Palm tree matures the base enlarges as a reversed cone.

The Ponytail Bottle Palm tree is very easy to grow and requires only little attention being tolerant of many varying light variations. The Ponytail Bottle Palm tree can survive as long as four weeks without watering since the swollen base is a water reservoir much like a hump on a camel's back. The Ponytail Palm Tree is very slow growing requiring decades to grow to 4 or 6 feet in height.