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My new trunking dwarf date palm.
by Mr.SamuraiSword- 1 follower
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On our way back from our trip I saw a place in new Jersey with palms for sale. Huge half off clearance but the best part was all dwarf date palms were 25$ I of course decided to buy the largest one. It also was the only single trunked specamin in the lot. Here it is after unloading last night and this morning.
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Bangalow Slide Show
by Walter John- 5 replies
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Testing out the Slide Show provision in Photobucket. Hope you like. Pics from my recent jaunt down bangalow territory, around Byron, NSW, Australia. Click on full size if and when it starts for you. Let me know if it works okay and what you think. Oh, by the way, it has sound so turn up them PC speakers. Edited by Mod for correct link: Mini Remix
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Chamaedorea tepejilote inflorescence
by Creekside- 5 replies
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I have a Chamaedorea tepejilote that recently flowered and, for the third time, the (staminate) inflorescence starts shriveling and drying up very prematurely, before anthesis and before it looks like it's even done growing. It starts at the tip and quickly works its way down. The tree otherwise is healthy and robust. It's about 7 1/2 feet tall, so fairly young. Any ideas why this happens or what I can do to prevent it?
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Clustering Fan palm
by pg6922- 5 replies
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This is the second palm to stump me this week. I thought it was some sort of Copernicia but it appears to be clustering. I know some of you can nail it in no time. Thanks, PG
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Inspired by Stevo / Urban Rainforest's project: What unusual palm species are drought-tolerant in Mediterranean climates? Stevo's beautiful Pseudophoenix sargentii is a great example, as is his Ravenea xerophila. I've found Parajubaea sunkha very tolerant of my own (neglectfully) infrequent irrigation in my summer-chilly, foggy backyard. What other palms prove unexpectedly drought-tolerant (besides the obvious ones like Chamaerops humilis, Brahea edulis, Jubaea chilensis, Phoenix canariensis). What frequency of irrigation do they need to look decent vs. to enhance growth? Because so few palms originate in Mediterranean climates (those obvious ones listed above +Phoenix…
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Some recent seed scores .
by aussiearoids- 5 replies
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Got a few seeds that had been on display at the Feast of the Senses . Alan Carle of Botanical Ark had brought them along . First would be common for you guys in the Americas, being the native Raphia .. R.taedigera , will keep my other 3 spp. company Also got a few fruits from Salacca sumatrana . There was a big bunch of S wallichiana again , but I have some seedlings from last years haul and other people were fighting over them [ to eat ] Also got some Galip Nut fruits , a PNG & Solomon Island tree , Canarium indicum And a few Achacha one of the Garcinia recently commercialized here .
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Show us your Dypsis Mahajanga
by steve99- 5 replies
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My Dypsis Mahajanga is still only small but growing along nicely all the same. Does anyone have a nice large specimen? If so, post a pic in here for us to see.
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Big Island Visit
by cagary- 5 replies
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I'm going over to the Big Island on August 18. What are the best places to see some palms? Thanks!
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Palm Flowering Seasons
by PalmGuyWC- 5 replies
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The only major palm I have that blooms in the fall is Trithrinax campestris, usually in mid October, but this year on Oct. 1st. All of my other palms bloom in the spring or summer. One exception is Chamaedorea radicalis which seems to bloom year round. I have several T. acanthocomas and they bloom in the spring too. I'm wondering, for those of you who live in the southern hemisphere, what time of the year do your T. campestris bloom? Mine seems to be out of phase with the other palms. For those of you who are not familiar with T. campestris, it's a beautiful palm with sharp spines on the trunk, and the tips of the fronds are sharp needles. They are very well armed …
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Need a Sabal ID
by JD in the OC- 5 replies
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Anyone have a guess? This is a nice big blue Sabal that is at least 15-20 years old and only has a few feet of trunk... very slow. It is growing here in SW Florida.
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Canaedirea hooperiana
by Wai`anae Steve- 5 replies
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Bought two 5 gallon pots a few months ago and one more last week. Today I planted them "way back" in what I call the Plumeria Patch as 25 years ago I tried growing plumerias to sell the flowers. That fell through and the ground has sat idle. Today it is being readyed for palms as I plant what I hope will be shade trees. One African Tulip tree is growing very fast and so I decided to plan the palms around it. The first picture shows the one pot ready to put in the ground The second the hole is dug behind tree to left. The third 2 others are added to the ground with irrigation system in place. The forth the cut grass has been returned to serve as a mul…
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I purchased this Parajubaea torallyi var. maricopia Feb 2007 as a 15 gal palm. It had just started to produce mature fronds. I immediately planted it in a 25 gal pot. It takes the Georgia heat like a champ and grow steady all year round. However, I must admit it grows faster in the Spring, Fall and early Winter. Feb 2007 August 2008- It is developing a nice trunk...I suspect it will double this size next year when I transplant it to a 65 gal pot in the Spring.
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Improveing drainage
by WaianaeCrider- 5 replies
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Built the bed on a hill side and after filling it with silt from my "dry" stream bed I decided It won't drain well. So I drilled holes in the cement blocks, then dug out a trench on the other side and back filled with small rocks and then some pea gravel. Hope that works. Plan on planting a 1 gallon sized Actinokentia divaricata there. Will have to add a lot of compost and black cinder to the planting hole and add some support for shade cloth.
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buikding a little shade / mist house today
by sick1166- 5 replies
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got started today a few brohidiana seedlings a few cocthrinax miraguama seedlings a few 2 year old cocothrinax crintia lots of new seedlings from the winter and the garage is just to small now
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Crazy dypsis leaf
by Bill Austin- 5 replies
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This is suppose to be d prestoniana but what a crazy leaf.
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Cocos nucifera in Kona
by Al in Kona- 5 replies
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This Coconut tree is growing in the Honaunau area of South Kona, Hawaii Island. Thought you might like to see the very curved trunk it has. Any idea what might cause this to happen? Does anyone else have any similar pics to show?
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The guided tour continues
by Ciczi in Sweden- 5 replies
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Hello Here's some pictures of my hometowns surroundings. Trelleborg's closest neighbours is the ocean and some of the finest cultivated land there is in Sweden. This is rapefields (Brassica napus). Scania (Skåne) is full of them. BR Ciczi
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Cassowary Hill palms advice
by cassowaryhill- 5 replies
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Hi Guys, been a while but just been busy with a new job and now Xmas..... 1. Coconut palm took hellishly looooong to sprout that new leaf.... But it's now pushing a second... Iv only recently found out as I'm not a big Dypsis lover that Dypsis are very slow growing to start as they send out roots first then go AWOL as seen in my Teddy bear/Red neck... Does it apply to coconuts as well? 2. Now..... I have three really nice Chamberonyia macrocarpas that need planting.... Do I ..... A) Plant them in a row ????? plant them in a triangle????? C) disperse them amongst the garden???. 3. Why is my one licuala ramsayii which is the same age as the other one smaller??. …
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Variegated Caryota mitis
by Really full garden- 5 replies
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This palm is much more robust than I expected.It is now growing out into the sun.
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SYAGRUS MARMOL
by MAUSER- 1 follower
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Hello everyone. A couple of months ago I bought a SYAGRUS MARMOL. Anyone know anything about growing Thanks
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CYRTOSTACHYS RENDA Lipstick Palm Seedlings
by Miami_grower- 5 replies
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New Papi here in Miami! The C. renda seeds from Thailand went to heated (electric blanket for those cold Miami nights) germination bags (with moist sphagnum moss) the third week of November. Right on schedule, they started to sprout the first week of February. I have the early risers in a small bottom heated community tray (LED light) waiting for their siblings to catch up. Then into two larger community trays, six inches of very moist perlite-enhanced potting soil and room for six inches or so of growth. The community trays are clear plastic Home Depot type, bottom heated with the tops on to keep all moist. From there, as well-established seedings, to individual …
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Palms for Windy Conditions
by Patrick Palms- 2 followers
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Any ideas of Feather Palms suitable for Windy conditions, 7G size also ok for Full sun and dry conditions? watering weekly or so My guess is Spindle Palms Bottle Palms Triangle Palms ? Any more ideas ?
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Palms in Boots
by chris.oz- 5 replies
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Its quite common for seeds to lodge in the boots of certain palms and they germinate there. In most cases the boot palms die off before developing the mature leaf. I saw this today where a large Butia capitata had about 100 seedlings in its boots Has anyone seen an advanced palm growing in a boot? Do they ever grow like a strangler fig ? Pictures welcomed.
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One dead variegated foxy lady
by happypalms- 5 replies
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Discovered my foxy lady dying I always pull out any dead or dying plant always to inspect what might be the cause of the issue and to my discovery a grub was eating away unnoticed eating the palm heart I have never seen this before and let’s say very disappointing with the result to have such a rare palm die this way a soil insecticide may have helped but I don’t like to spray my palms it is what it is
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Geonoma undata That Just Won’t Give Up
by Jim in Los Altos- 5 replies
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This little Geonoma undata has been through utter hell but just keeps resurrecting. Twice, rats ate every leaf, fronds fell on it from large palms above it bending it to the ground and breaking leaves, and last summer it wasn’t watered during a heat spell with very low humidity and became brown and crispy. I thought that was the end. Today, I took this picture of it. It’s green! It has netting around it to keep rats away and several bamboo sticks to buffer any falling fronds or seed branches from above. So far, so good. It definitely wants to live!
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