Jubaea

[swamptreenelly]

Old Jubaeas flanked the entrances of Rock's Nursery and Bernard and Richard Fox's old Nursery on Old Oakland and Fox Road in San Jose, Ca. Rock's Nursery was in San Jose from 1865-1884 until Rock and Fox move their operations to Niles District in the now Fremont, Ca. area in 1884 and called it the California Nursery Company. We pick up 2 15 gallon sized containers of Jubaea seed this weekend. These trees have viable seed.

[iamjv]

Great info and shots... more future jubs for your local planting projects. Jv

[PalmGuyWC]

Nelson,

I can see from the scars on the trunks and the fact that the Jubaeas are penciling that they are very old. Also from the brown vegitation around them, I wonder if they get watered in the summer time? I have a feeling there will be a lot of Jubaeas growing in the South Bay pretty soon.

All things considered, I guess my Jubaeas have grown pretty fast, but they get watered regularly during our dryer months, and I used to fertilize them when they were younger.

I've mentioned before, but after the first few weeks of warm weather, the two lower ranks of fronds on mine turn yellow and I usually cut them off before they turn brown and the base of the petioles grow hard and woody. I've noticed that on one of mine a few of the lower fonds are drooping and pretty soon, they abort and fall off on their own accord. The fronds are still green. They are supposed to be self cleaning, so I suppose the wind action of swaying the fonds back and forth that they naturally abort the lower fronds when they get older.

Dick

[paulgila]

who is the seed-gatherer in 3rd pic?

[swamptreenelly]

The guy in the last picture picking up Jubaea coconuts was Matt Bauchou.

[Kris]

Dear Nelson

thanks for those lovely visuals...

love,

kris

[PalmGuyWC]

I often wonder where my 4 large Jubaeas will be growing in 2050. I will be long gone by then, but will they be happily growing in my garden where they have been growing for about 35 years, or will they be growing on the grounds of some hotel or office building? Hopefully, maybe in a botanical garden or a public park where they can be enjoyed by many.

Dick

[trioderob]

I often wonder where my 4 large Jubaeas will be growing in 2050. I will be long gone by then, but will they be happily growing in my garden where they have been growing for about 35 years, or will they be growing on the grounds of some hotel or office building? Hopefully, maybe in a botanical garden or a public park where they can be enjoyed by many.

Dick

my bet is that they will be in a persons home - which they purchased for major $$$$$$

[Exotic Life]

They are huge and beautifull! Thanks for sharing.

[monkeyranch]

Driving down the I-880 in San Jose yesterday and spotted two Jubaeas possibly from the Fox Nursery mentioned above.  They are about 550' west of the others, on the freeway side of the Lew Weiss Associates building.  After looking closer they might be the ones in swamptreenelly's last uncaptioned, shadowy image above.

 

There is also a third one on the other side of the buiding at the parking lot entrance at 1769 Fox Drive.  Redwoods on the left side of the screenshot.  Which of these New World plant giants will persist here the longest?