Anyway you can get a specific name of the palm you are asking about? the diffuculty of germinating seeds, the temperature requirment of seeds, and the ease or difficulty in germinating depends on the type of palm.

The best thing i can suggest and keep in mind this is not 100 % sure but it's a place to start would be to do either a web search or an image search on the diffrient types of palm seeds but remember their are many !

ummm...by "house palm" do you mean it grows in the house? That could be one of dozens of palms. You can try the Jungle Music site and see if you can see photos of the palm your friend's seeds came from.

The most common palms grown indoors might include some of the Chamaedoreas, Majesty Palm, Caryota (fishtail palm) when small, Rhaphis (lady palm), Kentia palm, Areca palm (Golden butterfly, actually a Dypsis species but commonly called Areca Palm)...but there are many many others that people grow indoors too

My problem is that I have never seen the plant that these seeds came from. I wasn't sure if "house Palm" was a certain type of palm or just the fact that it grows in the house.
Elly

What did the seeds look like it was probly a cat palm r a parlor palm if they were small little round seeds. Also the posibilaty of geting a magesty palm to gow seeds indoors or ou is prity hard so don't count on it being a majesty.