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Butia capitata different views


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It is interesting to me how different a palm can look from different angles.

Here my B. capitata one year in the ground now.

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The last one almost looks like Butia x Jubaea but it still the same B. capitata.

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It's very green... and also the leaf bases. Are you sure it's no ButiaxJubaea or some other Butia?

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It's very green... and also the leaf bases. Are you sure it's no ButiaxJubaea or some other Butia?

One of the reason I picked this little fella was he was totally different from the others I’ve seen with the usual grey silver look with the reddish leaf base.

Hoping it turns out to be ‘relax leaf’ but so far not seeing it. I don’t think its a BxJ, just an unusual green variety butia. Time will tell…Green ones are more rare on the west coast and even more rare in PNW… B)

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thanks for sharing the photo has picqued my curiosity what is the little cycad plant behind it?

Best regards

Ed

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Taitungensis X Guizhouensis Hybrid (by Chumley) is the cycad. Easy to grow and very cold hardy. Real winner for zone 8/9. Those leaves are 40”inches long.

This butia is also growing in afternoon shade and with a mild protected stop won’t take long before is out grows it’s space. LOL!

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Thanks Will, will keep y’all posted on it progress.

Ed here a pic for you. Starts flushing at much cooler temps than most cycads.

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mine is also green at the base and the leaves are very green aswell (its not as green on the picture though)

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USDA Hardiness Zones 9b to 10a

AHS Heat Zones 8

altitude 100 meters (320 Feet)

4 km (2,4 Miles) from the Mediterranean

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lowest ever recorded temperature -4 C (24 F)

maximum ever recored temperature 45 C (113 F)

mean minimum temperature January 7 C (44 F)

mean maximum temperature January 14 C (57 F)

mean minimum temperature July 23 C (74 F)

mean maximum temperature July 33 C (92 F)

average annual rainfall 330mm (13 Inch)

average annual sunshine 2800 hours

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Thanks Will, will keep y’all posted on it progress.

Ed here a pic for you. Starts flushing at much cooler temps than most cycads.

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Good show --- I pollinated some C. revoluta x taitugenisis with C. guihoenziz and C. diananensis pollen and have simular plants many are volunteers. --- I am hoping to have a nice forest of them in the comming years souped up with hybrid vigour as you are learning . mbnb

Best regards on your garden

Ed

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