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New Bronze Leaf - Archontophoenix


Walter John

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Back visiting my palms this weekend and to greet me was this cool bronze leaf from one of my Archontophoenix groups.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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I love it when they do that. For me they'll only do it in the cool weather. It means they're happy. They look all exotic when they do it too. I love Archo's. They may be common, but a nicely grown one is awesome.

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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very nice. ive only had one do this one time and like Tyrone said it was in winter

"it's not dead it's sleeping"

Santee ca, zone10a/9b

18 miles from the ocean

avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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Lovely new colored leave, Walter John!

Mine is not so bronze but the palm is young. (in the background is a Adonidia merrillii "yellow crownshaft"

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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I used to have one that threw a bronze leaf, really beautiful too. It's long gone however, as there is now a Dypsis pilulifera in that spot.

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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I used to have one that threw a bronze leaf, really beautiful too. It's long gone however, as there is now a Dypsis pilulifera in that spot.

Tim

Palm snob.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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Archies go colorful in the new leaves in the winter, for me, too. I've had tuckeri and maxima throw orange, rust-colored and bronze-colored new leaves. In they summer, they don't do that.

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Even though it's winter here now, we still get some colour all year round, although this one is the most complete bronze leaf I have seen on any of my palms, in fact, when I first looked, I thought it was a dead brown leaf.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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All mine just open in various shades of green. Must be an environmental thing. Nice Wal.

"If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

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Even though it's winter here now, we still get some colour all year round, although this one is the most complete bronze leaf I have seen on any of my palms, in fact, when I first looked, I thought it was a dead brown leaf.

Nice Wal, garden is looking nice and lush again!! A theory has it that your sentiments about it looking like a dead leaf is exactly why many palms have the red or bronze colouration to the new leaf..... So that leaf chewing insects also think the soft new leaf is dead and they leave it alone, then as the leaf hardens off and becomes less attractive to insects it is able to green up again.... Sounds like a plausible theory to me

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I get reddish-bronze new leaves only on my maxima specimens, I've never ever seen that on any of my other archontophoenix species.

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Back for another visit to my aussie palm jungle with my grand daughter to see another bronze leaf appear.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Nice photo Wal.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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Cute kid. Is she waving?

She's telling her father to wait and make sure he gets the whole palm in the photo.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Here's one of my Archontophoenix tuckeri opening yellow-brown in full summer heat. I've seen it browner but can't find a good photo. Once, I wondered whether a new leaf was dying.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

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