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Pritchardia thurstonii??


Geoff

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Saw a palm garden in So California this weekend and this Pritchardia was labeled thus… have a hard time believing it, but this grower is pretty darn good. Could it be? Not ever seen one of these survive for any length of time in So Cal. Sadly, only got this one shot (no close ups)

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Geoff, If memory serves me P. thurstoni has suprafoliar inflorescences. much like Brahea armata. It's difficult to accept that it might grow in SoCal.

San Francisco, California

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No. Thurstonii looks just like pacifica but smaller dimensions all the way round. Also the seeds shoot out past the crown, like Darold said.

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It's definitely not P. thurstonii, and if I were a betting man, I would wager that it's a P. hillebrandii from the leaf morphology.

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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I've tried to grow these a lot; they're easy to germinate. I even got a 5 gallon plant from someone that rolled over & died at the first hint of cool weather. I think they're impossible here, or "highly unlikely" as my dad would say. That palm is not just surviving, but looks really happy. So I'm gonna guess hillebrandii as well.

Bret

 

Coastal canyon area of San Diego

 

"In the shadow of the Cross"

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thanks… that was my suspicion (not necessarily that it was a hildebrandii, but leaves didn't seem right…nor that fact that it was alive)

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The consensus of opinion is that that is not a Pritchardia thurstonii and I'd agree with that. You might like seeing this pic of P. thurstonii growing along a street in Kona, Big Island, Hawaii. A very attractive Pritchardia!

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Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

 

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Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

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