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It is that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere. Mostly a variety with orange flowers here in my garden. They make a nice green ground cover when not in bloom.

Hi Aceracea, We are supposed to open her up tomorrow WED April 8, so we shall see yes very cold tomorrow morning, but Sabal's can survive and Bridgeport seems to be FROST FREE after that, Ill post photos, thanks. DrZ...Naturally

I bought a Ravenea rivularis from Baby Palms. When it arrived the leaves were more yellow than green: As far as I know a plant with leaves this yellow is dead. Or can it recover? Number one thing I'd think it would hate is dry soil but it is thoroughly wet. The trip took 8 days, a bit long but I wouldn't expect it to hate it that much. It was stuck in Holland several days, and temperature there I can see from an online weather station can have been down to 2.5degC briefly at night. When it reached my country temperatures have been at least 4.5degC at night (~11degC peak daytime). Would be bad luck if it was actually in an outdoors parked truck at down to 2.5degC. It hates cold but I thought closer to zero is required to seriously harm it. I will leave it with plenty of light (2-3klx) and 65% humidity for a few hours. It was nicely green all over before departure from looking at the grower's pics.

Wow, Eric, I thought you might be joking a la "Reinhardtia pie-in-the-sky-ana"...I have only ever known about Reinhardtia simplex and gracilis and never looked any further into the genus...and now I see that this is a real thing...what a nice palm when well grown (see the beautiful pictures online at RPS), and why isn't it in greater cultivation?? I can't believe I've never heard of this thing. I'm always on the lookout for slender-trunked, more gracile palms as they serve such a purpose in our smaller residential landscapes (and easier to protect where I am in hot/sunny Palm Springs). I was wondering at first if this might be another species that I've been trialing here, Heterospathe uniformis, which has a similar form, and which cruised through our winter here (albeit a warm one this year). Does this Reinhardtia have any cold-hardiness? Perhaps your familiarity with it indicates you might be trialing it up in Orlando? I'd be interested to hear how it has fared in this great-for-testing Florida winter from which y'all have just emerged. And thanks, Bubbakeith, for showing this very interesting "what in the world" (and which were my thoughts exactly upon seeing it).

Dave it looks healthy so hopefully the spathe will open normally and you will actually get a flower bract. My largest has produced the flower spathes for years, only to abort them before opening. It is currently holding two, but I have learned not to expect much from them.

Thanks for your quick response. I was worried about shock if I cut a major stem and then transplant it.

Hopefully true at 11 AM

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Right, but these are neglected at best. How do ones look with an experienced gardener managing them? I guess I'll find out with the three I have plus the various hybrids in my yard

Nice Bruce! I have a few Butia spathes getting ready to open, so fresh pollen would be great for trying to make some hybrids!

I have a palm labeled as such, from RPS seed, the palm make multiple stems from the rootstock. The stems are about 1 cm diameter and 1.5 m tall. It's too dark here just now, perhaps an image later today. Yes, it grows well here with always cool, humid temperatures.

My diannanensis decided to throw a double cone!!! 😯. Need to find a female so I can produce pure species on this, as the ones at @edbrown_III house are phenomenal specimens! Multifrondis also coning...looks like more hybrids this year! 😁

The really tall skinny one? If so that should be Revoluta x multifrondis, definitely showing multifrondis traits!

The first is Aiphanes minima. They are usually very spiny but can vary with less. And older palms often have less spines on the trunk as they age and wear off. Older Acrocomia do this too. I think the mystery skinny palm is Reinhardtia paiewonskiana.

I’ve had this happen on Sabal palmetto and S mexicana and also Jubaeopsis afra more recently. Unfortunately in all cases, it is terminal and causes death to the palm and no viable seed is set. I’m really not sure what the root cause is, I’ve heard speculation it is nutrient deficiency but it can seem to happen at random. I haven’t heard of a single case of survival of this kind of premature flowering from anyone.

B purpurescens Richard? I actually got 2 of my own to sprout after a couple of years sowing. Grateful to have them - thinking one for me and one for the botanic gardens once I grow them up.

You have been working hard at it . Nice to see such terrific results👍. Harry

i had this happen to a 1-2 yr old palm and was told it happens from time to time and usually die from it. it happened on a hybrid dypsis and has yet to die, so we'll see!

The ones that are native to northern Madagascar, which is a more tropical climate, seem to do better here in Florida. Many of the ones from the south do not do as well here due to our wet, muggy summer conditions. I also killed C. pililifera and C. robustus last year in my yard. All Rotted. C. prestonianus does really well however. As does C. lastellianus and C. nauseousus. All come from wet, tropical rainforestes i believe. I'm in zone 10b with 55in of rain annually. JD

Yes , this is a tropical or sub tropical palm so it makes sense it would like your green house. It looks like , from what I read , that it is a smaller stoned species that could clump . Very nice , Richard . I don’t know if I will see one around here . Harry

It’s jumping all over the place here. 5 inches one hour, then 1.5 inches an hour later. At least some is better than none.

This graphic gets worse every time I look.

other alstroemeria in bloom

yes Tim is good person !