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A Chamaerops that is not a cerifera and still is pretty bluish


Phoenikakias

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'The missing link' between cerifera and not cerifera other forms? I took special care to shoot the pics during a time of the day, where sun does not ,make leaves look more silver than they actually are. Note please that the silvery color is persistant on both sides of the leaf and in following pics are shown leaves with silvery adaxial side. Has anyone ever encountered also such an intermediate form?

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Sergi, you have already seen pics of this plant before. It's just getting gradually more silver. Remember, I have described a specimen in Barcelona on the roadside to the top of Montjuic. It had an intense arborescent habit (solitary with fat, straight trunk) resembling somehow a copernicia. I managed to germinate three collected seeds from it without any certainty about their purity. Two plants proved male and one female, which bears fruits for the first time this year. Fruits are elongated, in contrast to the round fruits, another gracile Chamaerops form of mine bears. Elongated fruits take longer to ripen than the round fruits, though the gracile form bloomed about two weeks later. This one in the pictures above is male and the more exposed one to full sun. Female is greener (for the time being?) but it is also the least exposed to sun, nevertheless it shares all other same traits with the male one.

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Very nice form! Would be very interested in hand pollinated seeds from these,especially since the motherplant was single trunked :)

''To try,is to risk failure.......To not try,is to guarantee it''

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interesting, normally the cerifera reach his definitive white/bluish colour when split his leafs or little bit later...meanwhile yours still increasing.
yes... now i remember, but i do not recognize it now...lol

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Sergi, you have already seen pics of this plant before. It's just getting gradually more silver. Remember, I have described a specimen in Barcelona on the roadside to the top of Montjuic. It had an intense arborescent habit (solitary with fat, straight trunk) resembling somehow a copernicia. I managed to germinate three collected seeds from it without any certainty about their purity. Two plants proved male and one female, which bears fruits for the first time this year. Fruits are elongated, in contrast to the round fruits, another gracile Chamaerops form of mine bears. Elongated fruits take longer to ripen than the round fruits, though the gracile form bloomed about two weeks later. This one in the pictures above is male and the more exposed one to full sun. Female is greener (for the time being?) but it is also the least exposed to sun, nevertheless it shares all other same traits with the male one.

Interesting, i found this picture on fousdepalmiers of a beautiful (supposedly) Cerifera in Barcelona (Monserrat)

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Sergi, you have already seen pics of this plant before. It's just getting gradually more silver. Remember, I have described a specimen in Barcelona on the roadside to the top of Montjuic. It had an intense arborescent habit (solitary with fat, straight trunk) resembling somehow a copernicia. I managed to germinate three collected seeds from it without any certainty about their purity. Two plants proved male and one female, which bears fruits for the first time this year. Fruits are elongated, in contrast to the round fruits, another gracile Chamaerops form of mine bears. Elongated fruits take longer to ripen than the round fruits, though the gracile form bloomed about two weeks later. This one in the pictures above is male and the more exposed one to full sun. Female is greener (for the time being?) but it is also the least exposed to sun, nevertheless it shares all other same traits with the male one.

Interesting, i found this picture on fousdepalmiers of a beautiful (supposedly) Cerifera in Barcelona (Monserrat)

Now the plot is thickening! Surely it is a nice specimen there resembling much my own specimens, but it is not the one I saw on Montjuic, there was not any residence or other building nearby, just this Chamaerops on a small plateaux above a steep slope.

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