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The Best Queens?

Matthew92

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Feast your eyes! Here is a collage of some drop-dead gorgeous queens I've found both in person and on Google streetview. I don't intend to proclaim these as the best anywhere: I know my viewing range doesn't encompass every place they can grow.

This sole picture is the reason why Syagrus romanzoffiana might be my favorite palm- couldn't be a more perfect specimen. On the carefully maintained Disney Polynesian Resort ground, I'm sure this palm couldn't be in a better situation.

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Same location, this one has more extended fronds. I really applaud Disney for not overpruning too much. The best queens I've seen are in the Orlando area.

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Growing huge at Epcot. There is a class of queens which in my opinion, start to compete with a royal for beauty and size together. This is one of them.

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Perfection- at Animal Kingdom

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More royal palm sized queens at Epcot

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In the wind- Epcot

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Sorry about skewed picture, but this shows their immense size- at Epcot

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Now we get to streetview: this queen is holding the most fronds I've ever seen. I almost have wondered if it is something else, but I think it's just a very distinct individual. SW Florida

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Different view- look how thin the trunk is

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SW FL

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Here's another big guy. Besides it being over-trimmed, this is another that could compete with a royal in beauty and size together. SW FL

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Fruits looking like earings. Suberb specimen as well. SW FL

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Nice and wispy- loving the drooping fronds.. SW FL

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SW FL

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Love how the trunk starts narrow and widens up above- SW FL

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Great pics and a lot of work to find them.  Thanks.

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Queens can look so tropical, so pretty, when well looked after.  That means, IRRIGATION in California.  I've noticed that the local Big Box has started putting DROUGHT TOLERANT stickers on both queens and Archontophoenix, which is (I am sure) misleading consumers as to their care requirements.  I've noticed some local Archontophoenix plantings where people are sticking them straight in full sun and not watering them - and they are dead in weeks.  

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On the border of Concord & Clayton in the East Bay hills - Elev 387 ft 37.95 °N, 121.94 °W

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Queens aren't too picky about irrigation or sun, and I would classify them as semi drought tolerant, certainly when compared to crownshafted palms like Archos. I planted a few 10 years ago at my property in inland CA and they only get some spray from a nearby lawn. No babying, no mulch, dry soil most of the time, and they are now monsters.

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25 minutes ago, Pando said:

Queens aren't too picky about irrigation or sun, and I would classify them as semi drought tolerant, certainly when compared to crownshafted palms like Archos. I planted a few 10 years ago at my property in inland CA and they only get some spray from a nearby lawn. No babying, no mulch, dry soil most of the time, and they are now monsters.

Spray from a nearby lawn is likely doing wonders for them.  They are drought tolerant in California only in the sense that they don't die; they look like utter crap when not regularly irrigated.  Show me a decent looking queen, and it's getting watered.

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Ben Rogers

On the border of Concord & Clayton in the East Bay hills - Elev 387 ft 37.95 °N, 121.94 °W

My back yard weather station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=37.954%2C-121.945&sp=KCACONCO37

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1 hour ago, Pando said:

Queens aren't too picky about irrigation or sun, and I would classify them as semi drought tolerant, certainly when compared to crownshafted palms like Archos. I planted a few 10 years ago at my property in inland CA and they only get some spray from a nearby lawn. No babying, no mulch, dry soil most of the time, and they are now monsters.

Bet they're getting more water than you think.

 

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4 hours ago, Ben in Norcal said:

Queens can look so tropical, so pretty, when well looked after.  That means, IRRIGATION in California.  I've noticed that the local Big Box has started putting DROUGHT TOLERANT stickers on both queens and Archontophoenix, which is (I am sure) misleading consumers as to their care requirements.  I've noticed some local Archontophoenix plantings where people are sticking them straight in full sun and not watering them - and they are dead in weeks.  

WHOA!

Sounds like an excuse for a little Big Box Nursery Anarchy(TM) . . .

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13 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

Bet they're getting more water than you think.

Maybe, but not much. I have a few of them in my property in inland CA, and the soil is bone dry most of the time. The yard was only irrigated once a week for 10 minutes over summer. Kings would be long dead in this kind of environment.

Queens are not as drought tolerant as a washie, but they do pretty good.

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2 hours ago, Pando said:

Maybe, but not much. I have a few of them in my property in inland CA, and the soil is bone dry most of the time. The yard was only irrigated once a week for 10 minutes over summer. Kings would be long dead in this kind of environment.

Queens are not as drought tolerant as a washie, but they do pretty good.

I still think it's very misleading to label them drought tolerant.  I think of drought tolerant stuff as things that need the minimal to no supplemental watering.  Queens need a decent amount of supplemental water to look their best.  The thousands of yellow, stunted Queens around here are testament to that.

Ben Rogers

On the border of Concord & Clayton in the East Bay hills - Elev 387 ft 37.95 °N, 121.94 °W

My back yard weather station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=37.954%2C-121.945&sp=KCACONCO37

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54 minutes ago, Ben in Norcal said:

I still think it's very misleading to label them drought tolerant.  

I wouldn't call them drought tolerant either (hence the word "semi" in my earlier post), but they do survive periods of very little water even though they may not look their best. One of the reasons they're everywhere over here.

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My 7 monster queens once looked like those and were the canopy anchor for my back yard jungle until fusiarum wilt wiped them out in less than a year. They have insatiable appetites for water and fertilizer. If you can afford those they can all look like that but in Cape Coral hardly anyone cares. But so far those abused queens haven't fallen victim to wilt. Or maybe my yard is jinxed when it comes to wilt and palm weevils.

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Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
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Elevation: 15 feet

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On 11/24/2015, 11:00:39, _Keith said:

Great pics and a lot of work to find them.  Thanks.

Sure, I couldn't wait to share these with you guys.

On 11/25/2015, 11:27:38, Kai said:

After seeing this, I can sincerely say that for the first time I've come to appreciate the appearance of a queen palm...a bit. Thank you for turning me around...a bit.

I'm glad you're coming to appreciate them!

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I've always said that if this palm was just discovered in the mountains of Borneo and people started to see how fast and robust it grew - and that it tolerated a fair amount of cold weather - they would be a highly desired palm today.

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Great pics. I'm passionate for the queens myself; I have three juveniles in my living room now, started from seed two years ago. Still strap leaf, but almost 1 meter tall. Looking forward to seeing the regal bearing your pics show.

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Another beautiful queen palm at Disney's Polynesian resort. This one seemed taller and older than many others, I wonder if it's a survivor from hard freezes a few decades ago.

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Notice there is an ever so slight "pinch" higher up on the trunk. I wonder if that was from when it was transplanted or maybe a hard freeze.

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