Cryosophila warscewiczii (albida)

[pg6922]

When I started collecting palms a month ago or so, it started simple enough... just wanted to add a more "tropical feel" to our back yard. Its funny how the more palms you get the more your taste in landscaping changes.

I now see space for palms I thought was too crowded...

The northwest corner of my house is the shadiest part of my whole property and seemed like a good place for some palms that prefer less than full sun.

Justen at Seabreeze Palms helped me pick a few slow growers for my shady area. Since I use the forum "search" feature , I like to search by "topic title" so I dont have to search through a bunch of post to find a picture or discussion on a certain palm.

I will post the other palms under different topic titles, by their names.

Does anyone know how well these transplant as more mature specimens?

I would love to see pics of others specimens with approx age of palm.

Anyone growing this in SW Florida with success?

Patrick

Edited April 27, 2008 by pg6922

[John in Andalucia]

I was smitten with the appearance of the leaves on this palm as a seedling, by their almost unnaturally glaucous undersides. I know it's classified as extinct in its native Honduras and it likes an alkaline soil. I have a dozen or so, year-old seedlings. Looking forward to seeing a few S. Florida-grown specimens.

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Nice find, Patrick!

[Daryl]

Can't comment on the Fla experience, but they are a lovely palm, and mine took freezing temps last winter with no damage. The only thing to watch out for is wind...from what I've noticed they don't like it and the leaflets tend to snap easily...keep it sheletered from the wind for the best appearance.

Daryl

[Really full garden]

Patrick,I too love this palm.It looks very delicate but is actually very drought tolerant.This is a photo of mine at the beach.It is growing about 300m from the water and gets some shade from a nearby ficus.It receives about five hours of direct sun.Its growing in almost pure sand.I do fertilise frequently.It was a little larger than yours when I planted it four years ago.

[Mike Evans]

Here are a few pics from my garden. I love these palms, w/ the white/silver undersides of leaf. Most of mine are shade grown. They do not seem to tolerate a lot of wind. I also have these for sale in my nursery.

Here are some of the aerial roots starting. There are plenty more starting up the trunk.

[pg6922]

Those look great! thanks for the feedback and pictures. I look forward to mine getting some size to it.

Patrick

[bgl]

Here's a canopy of Cryosophila warscewiczii. They were planted in 1999 from 5G pots, so probably a couple of years old at the time. 11-12 years old as of right now. Overall height right now is about 12-15 ft but I have a few others that were planted roughly at the same time and they're pushing 20 ft now (but not easy to get a good photo of).

[galveston1602]

I wish Id have known about the wind issues...

I have no where protected from the wind and this palm always looks bad, I wonder if I should just dig it up and make it live on my porch!

[Eric in Orlando]

We have C. warscewiczii here at Leu Gardens, it actually survived 26F back in 2/96, it was defoliated but came back. Also growing C. williamsii (formerly C. albida) and C. stauracantha (formerly C. argentea).

C. warscewiczii

C. williamsii

C. stauracantha

[Eric in Orlando]

I have also seen a C. williamsii in a local garden. It also survived the 26F back in 2/96. It had just been planted the summer before. This is a photo from several years ago. I saw it recently and it is about twice the size now.

[Stethoscope]

Are any of the Cryosophila species suited for indoors other than the C. warscewiczii? 

[Dave-Vero]

Not such a great photo of my C. warscewiczii, which survived 26º in 2010-11 with no damage, but suffered  broken leaves in wind gusts up to 74 mph in hurricane Matthew this fall. The undersides (abaxial sides) of the leaves are distinctly silvery.  

 

[NatureGirl]

My Cryosophila before Hurricane Matthew. You don't want to see the after pics. For some reason C. warscewiczii didn't do well here on the beach. I don't think it was salt tolerant.

[annafl]

I have this one but thought it might be Cryosophila stauracantha.  Anyone know?  Sorry this is the only photo I have from a couple of months ago..  I need to go out and get one of the stilt roots.  I echo the comment about wind.  I wince every time it's  very windy.  Frequently some of the petioles snap.  This one has more than doubled in size in the last four or five years since it was planted.  Winters so far in Sarasota are no problem for it.

Edited February 17, 2017 by annafl

[Dave-Vero]

annafl, that's beautiful silver.  My C. warscewiczii isn't as enthusiastic.

[annafl]

3 hours ago, Dave-Vero said:

annafl, that's beautiful silver.  My C. warscewiczii isn't as enthusiastic.

I think the flash went off and hit it just right.  It turned out better than I thought it would.