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  1. PALM MOD

    SUPER IMPORTANT - MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS TO PALMTALK

    by PALM MOD

    Help Guide Our Update Over the coming weeks, we will be introducing a major update to PalmTalk. While PalmTalk has always been an incredible source of palm knowledge, inspiration, and friendship, the technology and design behind online communities has changed dramatically over the years. This update will help PalmTalk remain the best place online to discuss palms for many years to come, and we can’t do it without you. Why are we updating PalmTalk? We want to make PalmTalk easier, more enjoyable, and more engaging for everyone, whether you are a long-time member or discovering the forum for the first time. The new version will bring many improvements, i…

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  3. Cindy Adair

    Happy Anniversary IPS!

    by Cindy Adair

    This just in from IPS President Andy Hurwitz! Help Celebrate 70 years of the International Palm Society

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  4. Cindy Adair

    Palm Quest in Florida

    by Cindy Adair

    https://fngla.regfox.com/2026-palm-quest-conference? Above is a link to information about Palm Quest. I have never been able to attend but am posting it for general interest. I believe it happens only once every 2-3 years so go if you can and report back to this topic please.

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  5. PALM MOD

    Putting PalmTalk "App Icon" on your Home Screen

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  6. Cindy Adair

    Palms 2026

    by Cindy Adair

    I have been asked to spread the word about the World Palm Symposium supported in part by the IPS as part of our research, education and conservation mission statement. Below I copy a letter from the Organizing Committee: Dear fellow palm researchers and enthusiasts! Abstract submissions and early-bird registration are now open for PALMS 2026 Singapore! We are now accepting submissions for talks and posters related to the following themes about palms: 1. Ecology and ecophysiology 2. Systematics, phylogenetics, and evolution 3. Biogeography, macroecology and macroevolution 4. Plant-animal interactions 5. Uses and conservation 6. Palms…

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  7. DoomsDave

    Small, super spiffy palms for coastal Huntington Beach CA

    by DoomsDave
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    Howdyall, I have a couple of palm friends in Huntington Beach, where it's cool enough that many of the much-beloved palms I can grow they have problems with. I've suggested genera like Geonoma from mountain regions which do well in places like San Francisco. One particular problem my friends have is that their lot is small, with electrical and phone wires across the back, which limits the size of things they can grow. Big stuff gets chopped, and Big Sibling Utilities are watching . . . . Anyway, thoughts appreciated including from those Up North, where heat gets a bit scarce.

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  8. trippc

    Jacksonville palms 9a/b 1 2

    by trippc

    Hey fellow palm enthusiasts, I just became a first time home owner and am looking to plant some palms in my yard. I live in a 9a/b area in southwest Jacksonville FL. This being said I really wanted some coconut palms for their fruit and tropical look, however, I heard they are near impossible to keep alive up here. I may still try coconuts from seed(less costs if loss) in a pot that I can move indoors during cold snaps(40 degrees and lower) then outdoors all other days. Outside of the coconut, I am intrigued by the royal and king palms as a possible option for planting. I am aware that they are still zone pushing so I'd make sure they are planted on a south facing f…

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  9. happypalms

    What’s getting planted @happypalms thread 1 2

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    I shall start this thread, this way when I plant a few more things in the garden it will be found here, and what a joy it will be, theres a lot to planted! So the new plants for today are kerriodoxas and chamaedorea adscendens a little reindhardtia gracilis a philodendron hose buono and a Zamia variegata. This little batch should get the garden looking good from the deck.

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  10. MarcusH

    SWFL palm ID

    by MarcusH

    Today I came across this palm on Sanibel Island. Looks like they've planted a large amount on some of the beaches on the island . Some type of Sabal or Livistona?

    SeanK
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  11. The Gerg

    So What Caught Your Eye Today? 1 2 3 4 70

    by The Gerg

    Today wandering the garden as I often do while taking a break from work I noticed that my Beccariophoenix madagascariensis seems to be starting to put on a little size. I can’t remember exactly when I planted it. It’s been about 6 years I would guess. It was a small 5 gallon. Over those years it has consistently put out new leafs, but it never really seemed to get too much bigger. While still considered small, it seems to finally be putting on some size. 5 gallon bucket in 2nd pic for scale. So what palm in your garden caught your eye today? It doesn’t have to be your favorite, just something that stuck out to you today.

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  12. eacdmd86

    Chambeyronia Macrocarpa toast? 1 2

    by eacdmd86

    I posted in another members thread who was having sunburn on his flamethrower palm. Mine was also, suspecting from lack of water and the brutal Florida summer sun. It was suggested to relocate or put a shade cloth over it. It's prominently in front of my house, so the shade cloth wasn't an option and I have no where else to put it. It's either going to make it or not. It has a healthy spear that is huge and only grown 2mm in the last month and a new spear that is growing (see pic of lines). However, the oldest leaf turned brown a couple weeks ago along with the Browning travelling down the little bit of trunk it has. Then the second oldest sunburned leaf …

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  13. Phoenikakias

    Important and urgent question

    by Phoenikakias

    I bought Merit insecticide and each package contains 4 sachets with the substance. Well here is my question: are those sachets dissolvable, meaning I do not need to cut them open instead I throw them directly in to the water bucket?

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  14. Phoenikakias

    Exciting find

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    I had read in the past that it may occur, but I knew it only as theory. Now I am experiencing it live in my garden: a Phoenix dactylifera up to now male, bearing this year also female flowers! Yes it is true. Only presignal was that it was belated in opening the spathes. Pretty much belated almost by three weeks. At first I thought it was caused by the weather but now I am starting thinking of hormonic causes because of the female flowers. Exciting!

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  15. Phoenikakias

    Can you help me please identify sex of the flowers?

    by Phoenikakias
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    This sp dioecious, I know nothing more about habit of dioecism, like whether there are organs of one only sex or from both but depending on sex some of them are not functional.

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  16. happypalms

    Licuala orbicularis zone push test

    by happypalms
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    As a pioneer in the zone push department, I shall put another palm to the happypalms test. Having survived one winter already it’s had it’s fair share of cool weather temps down to 2 degrees celsius. So this little taker is set to change our views on how cool tolerant are orbicularis. Having already pushed the boundaries in zone pushing and finding new palms that are cool tolerant no matter what you read or hear. We shall see if it lives 🥶

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  17. Phoenikakias

    Can you help me please identify sex of the flowers?

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    Double, ignore it please.

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  18. wimmie

    Phoenix dactylifera

    by wimmie

    I have a problem with keeping Phoenix dactylifera's alive overhere in The Netherlands. Two years ago I bought young plants of dactylifera var. Iberica, a var. Medjool and a var. Deglet Nour. During summer I keep them in the most sunny position of my garden, during winter they are in my greenhouse, together with other palms and Citrus trees. At the end of the winter the plants don't look good and in the end, I can pull the spear out; rot! and hydrogenperoxide doesn't cure the problem! Is the fact that we have rather mild winters with high humidity causing this problem? Ph. canariensis doesn't have this problem. What do you think?

    Hu Palmeras
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  19. pogobob

    Ravenea xerophyla

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  20. D. Morrowii

    Containing Rhapis Excelsa

    by D. Morrowii

    I have a pretty nice lady palm in a 7 gallon pot and I'm thinking about putting it in the ground. I've heard the horror stories about this palm spreading like crazy and I don't want that, nor do I have the room for it. I was thinking about cutting the bottom out of a 30 or 45 gallon pot and using it as a root barrier. Doe's anyone have any experience trying that? I'm not sure if the rhizome would just grow around the pot wall and back up or just stay in the barrier. Any other ideas maybe?

    Merlyn
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  21. Jim in Los Altos

    Yet Another Floribunda Experimental Batch Order

    by Jim in Los Altos

    My second order this season from Floribunda arrived this afternoon and all are new trials for me. They all are BIG in their respective containers as is usual from this excellent vender. Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii Chamaedorea arenbergiana Chrysalidocarpus ‘Baby Red Stems’ Pinanga ‘Maroon Crown Shaft’ Anyone with personal experience with any of these, please comment.

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  22. Cape Garrett

    Show off your Kentiopsis Oliviformis 1 2

    by Cape Garrett

    I acquired two of these back in May of 2017 thanks to @Ken Johnson Just wanted to show how great they look. Flanking a Pritchardia Pacifica. Only planted 3 months before hurricane Irma but did quite well. One was tilted a bit and slowed it's growth but is just fine. The bottom 2 photos show this one. It was the taller of the 2 at the time. They were planted as trunking specimens. I would say their growth rate is slow to moderate. Look closely and you can see how close the rings on the trunk are compared to the older rings. Planted in mostly full sun on the north side of my house. Just some extra Winter shade as the sun is more southerly. Not fast growing by an…

    Billeb
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  23. realarch

    Basselinia eriostachys

    by realarch

    Nice smallish garden palm, great scale, color, and lightly clumping. These have been in the ground about ten years and produce viable BB size seed off and on. Have a few Basselinia species and they are all handsome little palms. Tim

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  24. donpachino1983

    Let's see those cryosophila stauracantha.

    by donpachino1983
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    Just planted my cryosophila stauracantha. Been growing this one from 1 gal for a few years .

    bubba
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  25. realarch

    Dypsis ampasindavae 1 2

    by realarch

    Sure is a pretty palm and showy with the new leaf. Something had eaten part of the previous leaf and I thought I might lose the entire plant. A few hydrogen peroxide drenches seems to have done the trick. Tim

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  26. tmiller0421

    Growing Washingtonia filifera in Phoenix.

    by tmiller0421

    Out here in Phoenix Arizona. Had the pleasure of my coworker special ordering me my favorite species of palm Washingtonia filifera from my store. Got a great deal on them and planted them all for my parents for their house by the pool. I dug the hole twice the size like everyone says to do and used Kellogs palm soil, earth worm casting, and some of the natural soil mixed together after digging out all the caliche. It's only been a week since I planted them They are still green in the center and I have been watering it for them twice a week. but some of them have this yellowish leaves to them as now which I think may be shock. Havent used any fertilizer yet. (I have arizon…

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