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One survived for a little while in Norfolk, Virginia, but died for some reason after a couple or so years.

I was surprised to see this at Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida back in December 2025. Wonder how it handled the big freeze event?

Another thing I remember wanting when I first joined the forum, is an easy way to access images of palms, right away. For me at the time, being new to palms, I wanted a quick way to identify what I like and what I may have seen before, but had no names to identify those palms. Some sort of hashtag image gallery system to bring all the images to the front for beginners to quickly get their feet wet.

@Brad52 here's a closer detail on the two. Bifida has 2 separate attachment points, so the bifid leaf comes straight off the rachis: Micholitzii will have the middle and lower leaves coming off the rachis as a pair. It will have a fairly short stub before it splits into two bifid leaves:

It's hard to see in the photos, just because there are so many leaves going various directions. The upper leaves in the first photo look like Bifida. One of my Micholitzii looks like that too near the top of the fronds, but transitions to paired bifid leaves lower down on the frond. I took a couple of photos of mine: Cycas Micholitzii - a single attachment point to the rachis splits into a pair of bifid leaves: Cycas Bifida - each bifid leaf attaches at a different location on the rachis. They are never "paired up" like the above photo.

So close yet so very far away

My big Archies are about 15-20 years old from seed. Which they produce prodigious quantities of. I’d say tuckeri and the late Slapsie Maxie were roughly the same size.

https://www.ortobotaniconapoli.it/it/risorse/schede-botaniche/wollemia-nobilis.html

At the botanical garden of Naples, there is a beautiful specimen and it is already quite large.

I have enjoyed this friendly forum for information and community for many years. I am excited to see its update which promises to add new options while keeping what I enjoy. Thanks so much to the IPS for the monetary support to PT and especially to the many individuals who are working on our behalf.

Update May 2026..

Most expensive palm you will ever buy is the tall one who needs a trim every two years. I never envisioned having to cut down my archies or royals. I have to trim my phoenix rupicolas but I don't think they will ever get tall enough to out grow my 18' pole saw. The longer the pole saw, the harder it is to use. As time has gone by I have appreciated the palms that self shed and don't grow to the sky so fast. Slow growth is good! Dave, how old were those archies? And did you ultimately find the maxima to be a bigger palm than the others?

@UK_Palms Last night was definitely unprecedented cold for the south east for May in recent year's. Here it got down to 42f/5.5c. Canopy can definitely do wonders however. At the end of the garden under a good amount of layered canopy it only dropped to 7c. The temperature quickly rose under the clear skies this morning, so that could possibly be a saving grace for some of your tomato plants in the poly tunnel? Probably many major crop losses for vineyards too.

There's a well established clump of at least a reclinata hybrid near downtown Pensacola. It has been there since before 2007, which to me suggests its probably crossed with something that has a better degree of hardiness. It would be worth a shot in a protected location close to the water in coastal Alabama. Anything north of US 98 in Baldwin and US 90 in Mobile though is probably a no go. https://maps.app.goo.gl/1ZuzU8B6vDnDHv1P6?g_st=ac

Never been even a hint of red with this one. From what I've read here, apparently quite a rare variation - I guess I got lucky!

Looks like they are loving life in the shade. Here is one of my hookeri that popped two days ago. light passing through the leaf is flame Light back reflecting off the leaf transits different chemophore compartments(mostly epidermis) and is dark red

Another pitcher has opened!

Good call I don't either on second look. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bbfEoabIR7YFc8uhdYoTqWBnNmqXo1OY/view

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Yep. The growers are not worried about the long term health of the palms. They just want to sell an eye catching pot full of palms for people to put in a dark corner of their living space, and replace 6 months later when they no longer look fresh. It's a market. When I lived in Minnesota, the cool thing to do was to buy a 15 or 25 gallon queen palm and plant it as an annual in your front yard. No chance of survival past October, but definitely an attention getter and conversation starter all summer...🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

They do all righ in Santa Monica California too. Show yours Dr. Andy!

I don’t understand putting so many Livistona Chinensis in one pot. The trunks , eventually , get pretty big . Some retailers sell palms in community pots that should have been separated at the seedling stage. Both those would be better grown as singles. Harry

Oh my , that’s quite the “shovel”. Harry

Very interesting information! I have found out also a couple other distinctive features of the dwarf form compared to the trunking one. Leaves of former have a rougher texture and seeds are smaller. Latter has a more glabrous texture and a subglaucous color on petioles and leaflets, perhaps due to more sun and wind exposure. Also seeds of latter are bigger. My oldest radicalis had been bought from Germany as a plant with already pinnate leaves, which had identical texture the the rest plants from your seeds. It used to remain for ever dwarf too, but I had the impression that it had a subterranean, creeping small trunk, just like Howea belmoreana. Unfortunately it got pissed to death by my dog.

Why do you think I plan on keeping this thread alive forever? 😝