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Our 2025 Save the Species Palm: Ravenea louvelii
by Cindy Adair- 1 follower
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🌿 Our 2025 Save the Species Palm: Ravenea louvelii 🌿 We’re thrilled to announce that our Save the Species palm for 2025 is the magnificent Ravenea louvelii! 💚 Recognized by the Global Palm Specialist Group as critically endangered, this rare beauty is found only in Madagascar — where just 10 mature palms and a few seedlings have been discovered in the wild. 🌍 With the support of our Save the Species Campaign, local botanists can expand their search, collect precious seeds, and begin nurturing new life in a dedicated conservation nursery. 🌱Together, we can help protect this incredible species from disappearing forever. 💪✨ Follow …
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Ravenea lovellii
by Cindy Adair- 2 followers
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I have been asked by Director Glenn Franklin to introduce the 2025 IPS Save the Species campaign. This program began with the successful Tahina fundraiser which ran on PalmTalk. It is now a very important part of our non profit mission statement (Education, Research, Conservation). “ Our December Save The Species fundraiser is coming up for this small palm. Photo by "Olivier Reilhes Ravenea louvellii is endemic to Madagascar. Our fundraiser will help finance efforts to document additional palms, involve the local community and start a propagation program. The team of botanists from Madagascar led by Dr. Mijoro Rakontoariniv…
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Putting PalmTalk "App Icon" on your Home Screen
by PALM MOD- 3 replies
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Bees love palms ❤️
by PhoenixFXG- 0 replies
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Lanonia dasyantha
by happypalms- 14 replies
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The dasyantha one palm that suits my growing style well. There a beautiful palm another great understory palm that does well in my garden. They do like water and will drink as much as you give them provided the drainage is there. And cool tolerant along with growing at a steady pace. Definitely worth planting in the garden.
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Ailing Euterpe Needs Palm Doctor
by Frond-friend42- 0 replies
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This Euterpe Edulis was putting out perfect leaves, then one day (I think I got too generous with a watering) a new leave was rotted at the edges. This is the second bad leaf. I've tried to let it dry out more between waterings since it happened but would be most grateful for any advice on how to help it.
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Zone push winners happypalms thread
by happypalms- 2 replies
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A few seedlings of a different ptychosperma species, somewhat cool tolerant and an easy growing palm, another great one for that mild Mediterranean climate perhaps, taking temperatures down to 2 degrees Celsius. I don’t have any in the ground yet but would think by the amount of only just a few loses in the seedlings in this batch is a good indicator of tolerance! Another zone push winner. And i think I might appease the gods and make this a thread and therefore document cold tolerance in palms! A handy little thread for all intrested in cold tolerance of new varieties! This should appease the palm gods!
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Excited to be flying toward South Padre Island/Brownsville for the first International Palm Society Weekend Biennial. The event is sold-out and I hope many of the participants post here.
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I created a man made island in a creek that's probably in a zone 10a microclimate, What palm could go there?
by Maddox Gardening-youtube- 1 follower
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I created a 3×3 man-made island in a shallow freshwater creek that's probably in a zone 10a microclimate, What palm could I plant there, that looks good is. it has a real nice tree canopy and in next to a huge tunnel that runs under the street plus stone walls around half of the island. The soil is sandy and loamy.
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I need help. What is this.
by metalfan- 6 replies
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The tag that was at the base of this palm (purchased over 15 years ago from Jeff Marcus at Floribunda) is GONE and I cannot for the life of me recall what palm this is. HELP!
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Nice bit of colour in some seeds from the vault
by happypalms- 5 replies
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The colours of palm seeds are incredible and so beautiful!
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We know the feeling: you're at the garden center or discount store and you spot an exotic plant. Sometimes the plant is in relatively good condition, sometimes not. Sometimes the price is too high, and sometimes it's a bargain. Some of the plants are described, others are not... Sabine discovered this plant today, undescribed but for 2 USD.
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Do palms and protea mix?
by los osos osos- 6 replies
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Hi. I'm thinking about planting a beautiful 5ft California palm in my front yard. Problem is the location I like is about 5 ft from a nice mature protea Lecadendron. Will the palms roots affect or kill my protea as they grow out? Thanks and any help is appreciated
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Haven't posted in a long time - thought I'd share my Southern California coconut pictures. I purchased this as a sprouted nut back in 2007 and planted it in a whiskey barrel full of sand. I planted a few others outdoors in a similar fashion, but don't think any lasted more than a year or two. I've tried a few other marginal palms (spindle, bottle) which I was able to limp along for a number of years - but this one is the sole survivor. It was in the whiskey barrel until about a year and a half back the barrel was simply disintegrating, wouldn't hold water, etc - so after digging a really big hole - in the ground it went and has done pretty well. If you look up some o…
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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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Copernicia Fallaensis transplant
by Tropical Toni- 9 replies
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So rookie mistake, i was too excited when i planted this 5gal copernicia fallaensis in my backyard a couple months ago. I’m regretting where i planted it. I feel like it doesn’t receive enough sun (2 new fronds opened + 1 spear on the way since planting). I didn’t take into consideration the shade from the fence. Ugh. also I know this palm gets massive so I wish I could transplant it in an area where it would have more room. I’m worried on doing so, I feel like these are root sensitive. Right now there’s a large vigorous cananga odorata tree to the left of it. Should I leave this alone or move it somewhere else in the yard ? Input would be a…
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YouTube content?
by JohnAndSancho- 0 replies
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What do y'all wanna see from my setup on YouTube? More Sancho? The repurposed ghetto stuff I'm improvising on such a low budget? Showcasing certain plants? I don't have the nice manicured gardens some of y'all have yet. I don't have the calming Mr. Rogers voice and vibe like @Allen has. I don't know how to edit videos, and I do cuss a little. I don't have the scientific knowledge to do deep dives and analyze things. It's all one take on a cheap Android phone. Ok sometimes 2 or 3 takes if I get something wrong or go over the 3 minute cutoff for "shorts" and unfortunately lots of jump cuts since I've only got 2 hands.
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Strange crown in Roystonea
by ne0ndrxft- 2 followers
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- 159 views
Probably unhealthy?
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Oh 💩 moment (good)
by JohnAndSancho- 8 replies
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I think brother @DoomsDave sent me these seeds about 2 years ago. At least I'm pretty sure they came from him because there's an absolute *expletive deleted* ton of them, and that's his style. If you've ever received seeds from Dave, you know when he sends seeds HE SENDS SEEDS. I'll be honest, I let them sit in a box for a while, then I did what I normally do and soaked them, put them in coir on a mat. And they languished and did nothing. Eventually, I pulled them out, soaked them again, and put them in another baggie about 6 months ago and put them back on a heat mat, this time with a thermostat (set to 87.5 if it matters). So this morning I start cleaning stu…
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Identification of palms
by ne0ndrxft- 1 follower
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My guesses 1. Licuala spp 2. Licuala spinosa? mattanensis? mattanensis 'Mapu'?
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What palm is this?
by ne0ndrxft- 1 follower
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Marojejya thread 1 2
by realarch- 2 followers
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Eye popping palms in any garden if conditions are right. I have three in the ground, two growing on rock with very little soil. They are also the oldest, about 12 years from one gallon containers. Recently they’ve had growth spurts which means their roots have found fractures in the lava rock. They look impressive at any size. These are all M.darianii, photos of insignis would be awesome. Tim
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Parajubaea torallyi var microcarpa
by Aloha Palms- 4 replies
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Anyone else growing this? Mine was planted out as a 5 gallon about 3 years ago. It’s been a great grower and starting to fill in nicely.
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surprising spear growth from my new king palm in late fall to early winter
by dimitriskedikogloy- 1 follower
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i bought this alexander palm in 1st of november and surprisingly in its small pot for its size it has shoot out a huge new spear in under 2 months while being indoors most of the time and grought out only when temps went above 15 in the sun, So it spent 80% of the time in the position in the photo indoors with a stable temp of 20c and little sunlight and im very surprised to not see any browning on the fronds or any sort of damage since buying it and it having such rapid growth on the spear.Im thinking of repoting when spring comes because right now i dont want to disturb its growth its thriving in these not optimal conditions
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Sabal yapa
by idontknowhatnametuse- 0 replies
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A very under-rated Sabal species. Very cold hardy and fast growing too, cases of Sabal yapa dying easily in cold snaps are actually cases of mislabeled Sabal mauritiiformis. Germinated these in 2023, brought seeds from the Yucatan peninsula. Already saw very low temps, unprotected and with no damage. Post yours! Here are the 2 biggest ones out of the 5 I have. Garden Sidewalk
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