Complex sentence: Growing to tall by broad, it is technically an evergreen monocot (not actually a tree) but'tree-like' since it presents with a sturdy columnar trunk it has waxy fan-shaped leaves which are described botanically as palmate.
Split into simpler sentences: Growing to tall by broad, it is technically an evergreen monocot (not actually a tree) but'tree-like' since it presents with a sturdy columnar trunk. It has waxy fan-shaped leaves which are described botanically as palmate.