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Indeed they are a wonderful palm!

It is a lovely example, I was at the mother in laws house and spotted it in her garden. I then proceeded to explain to her what the palm was and how it got to be in her garden. It has no trunk yet and its about 4 meters to 5 meters.

I was starting to get worried there for a bit, we can’t have any mafia gang members not contributing to the gang. And we can’t get the boss @palmtreesforpleasure getting involved, now can we . 🤣

A lovely example. What's the height of it?

My favourite at the moment is lepidozamia peroffskyana, a plant that’s native to my location. Here’s both male and female cones being pollinated by the weevil that is so important for pollination with this species.

Guess I got lucky! Pretty relieved actually, was starting to think I'd lost my mojo.

I do get pollen from my taitungensis, but unfortunately I have none right now. I also could collect some when available for you and you store it in the refrigerator or freezer. Until you get a chance to pollinate your female. Unfortunately I would suspect that the pollen would be pretty well much seized by customs upon arrival into your country. Not because that it’s pollen which you should be able to import, more so due to what it would look like and be a very suspicious looking plastic bag of a powder substance used in certain ethnobotanical rituals!

Ptychosperma nicolai

Three great originals for any garden! kerriodoxa elegans ptychosperma sanderianum dypsis cabadae

Did Tim send one down to you express postage, whos a cropping now 🌱

Hey Sean, not too big. I've got some that I grafted a couple of years ago onto trifoliata, they're not much over a foot tall and flowering now. Would depend on the rootstock I think.

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.