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Is the Piru Queen a "Thing"


JimR

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I recently came across a landscape nursery in Houston touting a type of Queen that they called a Piru Queen, suggesting that it was a subspecies of Syagrus romanzoffiana. The claim was that these palms originated from Argentine seed and were generally hardier than a normal queen. I see there is some brief discussion of these here and some commentary on the Internet, but nothing that seemed particularly reliable. Does anyone have experience with these or any more information on them?

Jim Robinson

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San Antonio, TX Z9a

Key Allegro, TX Z10a

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I think that it is just marketing. Here in AZ we have a large reseller that grows their Queens in FL and calls them "Piru" when they resell them.  They look exactly like normal Romanzoffiana and I  don't think there is anything special about them.  

 

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Buncha crappola. "But if you act now we'll throw in a second Piru free! All you do is pay separate postage and handling."

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Never heard of it. All we got in FL is the Class II invasive "Trash" queen.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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56 minutes ago, topwater said:

The guy writing that article is either a charlatan or an idiot. Arecastrum romanzoffiana = Syagrus romanzoffiana. Arecastrum is an obsolete genus name. Forty kinds of queen? Does he consider every species in the Syagrus genus to be a "queen"? God forbid. A queen is just a queen and, in FL, still a Class II invasive. And the so-called Silver Queen is just a queen.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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I came across this article previously and had a similar reaction. It is hard to take seriously an "expert" who gives the same species two different genuses. 

Jim Robinson

Growing in:

San Antonio, TX Z9a

Key Allegro, TX Z10a

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