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Red Fruit Butia


freakypalmguy

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I planted this Butia from a 15gal. 3 years ago and it has really started to take off. This is the first time this palm has held fruit and they are a very nice red color. Is this just another one of the variations of capitata, or is the red fruit an indication that it is a different type of Butia?

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Matt in Temecula, CA

Hot and dry in the summer, cold with light frost in the winter. Halfway between the desert and ocean

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Butia are like weeds here in Charleston. There is so much variance in butia it's hard to say, but we have many with orange and many with red fruits. When they ripen they all turn orange. Some trees hold 20 fronds where others will hold 40-50 fronds.

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Butia are like weeds here in Charleston. There is so much variance in butia it's hard to say, but we have many with orange and many with red fruits. When they ripen they all turn orange. Some trees hold 20 fronds where others will hold 40-50 fronds.

There seems no rhyme nor reason to the colour of fruits. Here on the beach can be found red,yellow ,orange fruits all together within just 1 population of wild Butia odorata.

Resident in Bristol UK.

Webshop for hardy palms and hybrid seeds www.hardy-palms.co.uk

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Butia capitata used to be divided into several varieties. One was var. nehrlingiana and was characterized by fruits that were round and red when ripe instead of ovoid and orange.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Matt,

I have a very robust Butia capitata with the same fruit color before it ripens. It's so colorfull that Patric S. calls it Rainbow. As Lazz mentions, they all turn orange when ripe. The Rainbow fruit is very tastey when ripe.

Dick

Richard Douglas

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Thank you Laaz, Nigel, Eric, and Dick for the replies, that settles it then, a Butia capitata with red fruit. I look forward to tasting them. I have not tried to hybridize this one yet, but I will next time it flowers.

Matt

Matt in Temecula, CA

Hot and dry in the summer, cold with light frost in the winter. Halfway between the desert and ocean

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Yes, we see red fruit on a few trees here as well............much less common than orange. Even when these change to a more orange it is a more red orange as opposed to the yellow orange of most trees.

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

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