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And I thought I was weird, that’s a classic aroid! If you want to try an anthurium try vietchi. Quite cool tolerant surprisingly, don’t believe all the hype about vietchi being tender and fussy they are easy to grow.

Chamaedorea klotzshciana loving the shade.

I would most likely say schefferi!

You might not want to remove it so quickly, unless of course you just don't like its position and wanted to get rid of it anyway. In my experience when this thing is happy and in heat and sun, it grows like a rocketship. You can take advantage of the fact that it has a large established root-system, far larger than your seedlings will have of course, and that's what will give it the power to overtake any seedling you might want to use in its stead. They can grow six feet a year under good conditions (mine did the year after I planted it here in the low desert). Just pick a leader out of those "feelers" once they get a little bigger, and go with it. Nobody will ever know anything ever happened...

Put it out, still in the pot, where you’re considering planting it. Then keep an eye on it and see if it starts to burn. If it does you’ll still be able to harden it off.

Thank u. I mean I haven't done much. Mostly last minute advice on how to edit the paper before official journal submission. But yes I recently found out about the desert taxa in Xerokampos and I am amazed on how Greece was actually missing this microclimate systematically! Here is an extract from the study

Hey y’all, I had a question. I’ve had this palm for probably 12 years. A great grower, looks good all the time, almost no burned leaves ever. A few years ago, it began flowering. A little sporadically at first, but now it’s to the point where every leaf base has a flower spathe underneath. The upshot is that it flowers like crazy, millions of little flowers falling, all throughout the year. But absolutely no fruit has ever developed. Any thoughts is what might be causing this? It just looks and grows so dang good in every other way, it’s hard to believe that it’s missing nutrients. Thanks in advance!

Thank you Ryan!

Been trying to determine if mine is P schefferi or P lauterbachii but these seeds confirm P schefferi do they not?

Greetings they are a fantastic palm to grow. I have a native grove of archontophoenix Cunninghamiana growing on my property in the creek line. With terracotta pots you can paint the inside with wood glue or a paving sealant it reduces the water loss. By all means place your palm in a tray you will soon notice roots coming out drinking water. Fear not they love water

'Tis the season in the Northern Hemisphere. Progress on a little Encephalartos arenarius and the two single lesf pups on a seedling Encephalartos horridus × woodii backcrossed with another identical hybrid.

As a quick follow up... after i crudely hacked it down with a machete and threw it in the burn pile and quit watering it, i was surprised to find mine growing back from the ground. I admit I'm not keeping it there because for some strange reason I planted a lot of seeds last spring. But an interesting twist.

I am growing this Washingtonian filibusta seed from scratch and it seems to be creating some sort of loop with the roots and the first sprout. I was wondering if this is normal or if I should do anything?

@Maddox Gardening-youtube Has your area gotten any rain?

I'm bringing this old topic back to life! As far as P. Roebillini, posted by OP, I found that I prefer ones that are severely overgrown in the pots. When planted in the ground, the trunk widens starting at the crown but stays thin below to the base. This seems like a more tropical look to me. In their native environment, they have consistently skinny trunks from the base up as they grow in more shady locations, with more consistent precipitation. With the amlpe water and jungle, they grow faster stretching to get to the sun. I once planted a tiny P. Roebillini from a 1 gallon pot into the ground and the trunk was over 6 inches wide at the base within 3 years, and just as wide at the crown. I don’t like that consistent chunky look. Hence I buy them overgrown in 3 gallon pots with skinny trunks and often in a clump of three as nurseries like to do. I plant it in the ground, and wait a few months, then cut off the other two at the base for a super nice single specimen as they are singles in their native environment. You can definitely tell which ones were planted in long overgrown pots yielding thin trunks at the base with gradual thickening as the crown heads to the sky!!! Love it!!!

Richard's Anthurium thread sent me down an Aroid rabbit hole where I discovered I had an Aroid species hiding in plain sight in the greenhouse. In fact it turns out that I have the entire monotypic genus, ie Gymnostachys anceps. It's a pretty weird plant for an Aroid, looking more like a sedge or Dianella sp. Grows from southern NSW to north Queensland in rainforest and forest margins. Common name is Setlers Flax due to the apparently very fibrous leaves. I'd been wondering whether it was viviparous, as it looks to almost have small plants on the inflorescence, the pic below from the ANBG website seems to show that it is, so I might give that a go. Probably not a species that's going to set the indoor plant market on fire any time soon, but an interesting curio that I'll be happy to give a place to in my garden.

They're focusing on their root system. Some species like Chamaedorea pochutlensis, Chamaedorea seifrizii and Wodyetia bifurcata usually do that in my experience.

I’ve been marking the spears with sharpies.

Wallisia cyanea now.

I'm in SW Florida and mine opened it's first flowers last year at about 5 and a half to 6 foot of trunk. Slow to flower for me. Likely 14 years from planting a 3 gallon. Finally have some seeds working on ripening now for the first time.

True, but it could have chosen a nice new red or purple leaf for that flaw. 🤣 Richard

Reasonable 90F at 1:07PM as some " summer-y " moisture moves in from the south / southwest.. Compact, and quick moving upper level low that had potential to bring us some end of " April showers " now looks to stay too far south to bring us anything ..anything meaningful at least.. as it works it's way east across the AZ / N.M. /Mex. border toward El Paso over the next 12 -18 hours.. That said, late - spring upper level lows are notorious for doing unexpected things sometimes so i'm not completely ruling out ..at least a sprinkle or two sometime this evening / over night.. about as far north as a line following the 202 from Chandler to Gold Canyon. " Better " rain and storm chances will stay south and east of Casa Grande and Tucson ..Roughly 20 -35% chances respectively.. Best chances will be confined to areas over far S.E.'rn AZ ..Mainly Cochise Co. where there is an outside threat for isolated flash flooding issues / daily rainfall records to be broken in a few spots if some of the showers /storms down there generate heavier rainfall. While we likely won't see much ..if any.. water falling from the sky up here, storm activity down south could generate a strong enough north / northwest - moving outflow to generate some dust / 35 /35+ mph wind gusts passing through the area. As sunrise arrives on the first day of May, storm will be headed into central TX., and we'll be heating up ..For the weekend at least.. Next upper level system anticipated to pass through the area will arrive by Sunday or Monday, knocking back temps. into the 80s again ...for a few days at least. Still watching for signs of a bigger heat wave arriving around the 8 -10th, and the E. Pac. west of southern Mex.. More later

Kerriodoxa elegans

Ptychosperma schefferi

An often-pruned Japanese Fern Tree, Filicium decipiens. They are usually left to grow wider to create a very thick hemispherical crown, but that one is pruned regularly to create a ball... almost like a standard. Ryan