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Here’s one for the hybrid fans. This one was identified a while back on palm talk.

I do have some in containers and in the ground that are rather tall. PM gor seeds.

Wow! 5 ft and 3 ft tall are impressive. I’ve read it can grow to 7 ft tall, but I’ve only seen one 3 ft tall in person. I’d love seeds! Can the seeds be sent to the U.S.?

The garden has a pretty impressive rare fruit collection as well.

How is it?

@epicure3 there's a really nice one over at Palma sola botanical Park if you drive over there. One of the nicest and biggest orange geigers I've seen in the area. It's flowering really well right now too.

Update…like nothing ever happened. Why it would have shut down for months is a mystery to me! Looks better than ever now though..

When I first saw the picture, I immediately thought "Tahitian gardenia". I've got one planted right in the front of my house, and it actually survived 25⁰ this winter and didn't even defoliate. No protection at all either.

Yes, right I remember you kept trying to show me how it was splitting more than once and I kept having trouble seeing that. If you zoom in on these leaves, do you see anything telling about the splits?

A touch of colour in paradise!

@Brad52 I'd guess Cycas Bifida or Micholitzii. Bifida is extremely unusual in cultivation, Micholitzii is fairly common...as far as cycads go. The key distinguishing characteristic is the leaflet splits: Bifida will have leaflets split in two just off the rachis, but ONLY bifid splits. Micholitzii will have leaflets that split to 4 leaflets off the rachis. A single side stem splits to 2 stems that splits to 4 total leaflets. I think we might have discussed this plant in a different thread, and maybe concluded it was a Micholitzii.

I will keep this brief... 23C / 74F max here today. ☀️ El Nino typically produces cool/wet summers in the UK (unlike La Nina and ENSO neutral), but I strongly suspect the extent of the Csb (warm-summer Med) forcing in southern England will completely override that signal nowadays. Previous moderate-strong El Nino transitions in spring-summer (1997 and 2015 come to mind) are the main analogs. Both cool, wet, cloudy summers, however the proper Csb transition has kicked in since then (circa 2017 so to speak). So I fully suspect it to override that typical pattern and we have yet another warm, dry summer. That would be quite telling if it does override the analogs, as I expect. And prove the switch to warm-summer Med in southern/eastern England. So all eyes on rainfall patterns this year, given the setup should favour the wettest possible outlook for us here. Although even right now it is very dry here, 1mm of rain over the past 6 weeks lol.

I certainly did not have "more coconuts than Chambeyronia surviving" on my Palm Bingo card. Here we are, though. It does lend credence to the four reports we have of a isolated specimens coming back from record cold in Central FL a few decades ago.

@Merlyn Yeah, I'd get rid of the Foxtails if their close. They might look fine for a while and then collapse. Hollis had that happen with a Bismarckia out of the blue. Thankfully, no one was standing anywhere near it at the time. It is good to see some green coming back in your garden and in the area, in general.

Oh it will live here, Australia has a very unique climate all in one day it can be snowing, bushfires drought and flooding all 4 seasons in one day just pick which location you want to be in!

The botanical garden saw a low of 21 F this winter. some of the tender stuff got protected, but this plant is less likely to be protected. The founder, John Rossi, is a major palmophile, and secondarily into other subtropical plants. It is a nice garden to see even tropical palms in mid-north Florida. A lot of palms you normally think of as tropical grow there. Pritchardias, Johannesteijmannia, roystoneas, archontophoenix, and even a couple coconuts survived this winter, with damage.

Thrinax radiata

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?

75% to 90% of the coconuts are recovering. I'm actually really surprised.

How critical is wind protection for this plant? I recently got one too and wanted to put it in a good spot by the beginning of the dock that gets full sun till about 3 it catches shade from a big cypress tree, the soil is pretty rich and stays moist. There's a lot of colocasia and big leafed stuff around it would go good with and add some extra shade. But it gets really windy off the lake sometimes and the big leafs make me think i should try to put it somewhere else. But the best wind protected spot i have to put it in front is a lot of full sun, drier and only about 12ft from septic tank, so also wanted to ask if the root system is very aggressive?

This looks a lot like Gardenia 'miami supreme' or Gardenia taitensis. I've had very good luck with both of them in previous winters taking mid 20s with no damage or leaf drop. Last winter at 23 degrees both went to the ground and I have not seen any sign of life.

Naah, save the measuring contest for when we start seeing Cordia subcordata, rickseckeri, and morelosana specimens

Here's a few more flushes turning my garden back from brown to green! On the left middle an unknown "big green Encephalartos" is flushing. It could be an Equatorialis or just natural variation of Ituriensis/Whitelockii. Just behind it the big one is a Gratus x Laurentianus. Common Zamia Furfuracea are flushing bronze in the middle. In the foreground a Sclavoi x Ituriensis has 5 leaves going, and in the bottom center a Natalensis x Horridus has 5 finished leaves. Just to the bottom right is a Horridus x Natalensis with 3 new fronds in process. Not really visible behind the Pygmy Dates are a couple of Zamia Vasquezii and Picta also flushing. Also not really visible is a double-coning Cycas Simplicipinna on the other side of the path from the Gratus x Laurentianus. So this is sort of a 10-fer flush! In the center rear bed a few more are going gangbusters! The middle is a big Dioon Spinulosum with a pup flushing too. Just behind is to the left is a 2-headed Cycas Revoluta flushing just one of the two heads. Just below it is a single frond growing up on a tiny Encephalartos Umbeluziensis. Bottom left corner is a "fasciated" Zamia Furfuracea. The lower right cone is an unfortunate timing on a male Cycas Multipinnata that was completely defoliated. To the right behind the Spinulosum is a solid flush on an Encephalartos Ferox. In the background left of the Spinulosum is one of the triple Encephalartos Whitelockii/Ituriensis with a solid 8 leaf flush. The other two in the triple are thinking about it...but not quite yet!