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First time seeing this post, very cool. First time I’ve seen human figures illustrated in a palm descriptions as well. Thanks Gunnar. Tim

Have you thought about getting it into the ground ASAP? Roots are far more sensitive to heat and cold than the top of a plant. I've lost a few palms in pots here in Palm Springs and I later re-ordered the same species and put them directly in the ground and they grew fine through the heat of summer. You my find the same treatment may keep your nice young Ceroxylon going. If you don't want to commit it to a final growing spot, you could just plunge the pot in a hole until the fall/winter, you should get the same effect.

I have been into palms since I was like 3 years old. I would always ask my grandma if she could take me to the neighbors house to collect queen palm fruit, I liked collecting it and inspecting it. Little did I know the Zetas were entering northeastern Mexico at that time and leaving your house at certain hours and places was dangerous. At 4 years old I saw coconut palms for the first time and that made me like palms even more, my favorite coconut palms have always been the varieties with orange petioles. I remember planting a green immature coconut that I brought from Guerrero hoping something would come out, obviously nothing came out. Now I have around 16 species and 40+ palms. Including the coconut palm which is a must have in my collection.

Last years fronds have now yellow tips.

I have always appreciated palm trees growing up in LA county. I remember driving around neighborhoods and seeing giant robustas and canary dates row the skyline. Most people never thought twice about them, but they signified something. These palms are now over 100 years old. Sherman Way ay Haskell 1928 Same street today Palm trees are part of the aesthetic and skyline. But curious how some of you guys got into them? Particularly people who grew up in colder climates where palm trees were/are rare.

One of my favorite astrocaryums, heard it has some cold hardiness.

We come in peace!

Here’s another photo of a new shoot of number seven Dendrocalamus minor ‘Amoenus’ and number 13 is Schizostachyum brachycladum, a sacred Bali bamboo that is stunning until the entire clump starts to flower and then it looks like you have wheat hanging all over the place little unsightly.

Was out back this morning and snapped a photo, all the while keeping my distance. Tim

A slowly growing R. sambiranensis.. And a sp. “giant”— still no name as far as I know. Plugging away, about 13 years old, but otherwise reasonably happy.

Here’s my glauca post blooming.

So here’s a R. lakatra 10 years from a seedling; as mentioned earlier, it doesn’t appear to be one of the giants. And looking up into a fast growing sp “new”, possibly madagascariensis?

My total at the midpoint of June 2026 is ~4in. Crossing my fingers for a more typical June with close to 9 in. of rain.

Good grief Jim, that looks great! Attractive petiole’s and abaxial side of the pinnae. Tim

Here are the pictures of the green uresanas. Both planted as large strap leaf palms. All the palms grow much faster in the ground. The larger was planted maybe November 2025 and the smaller 2-3 months ago.

I’ll go as far as to say I’m 100% certain it’s not C costaricana. 99% sure on C radicalis. Please don’t use plant ID apps to check! They have some limited use for common plants but for 99% of palm species, they’ll have no hope.

".......The best shot to see some rain for the west coast will be on Friday as the upper level flow switches more southeasterly for one day. However, this is short lived as winds shift southwesterly once again for the weekend."

Almost 100% it’s not C. costaricana. Neither the fronds nor the main stem resemble that species. I don’t think it would have been completely unscathed by 24°F with high winds either. Those you have are very consistent with C. radicalis tree form however and I’d be willing to bet that’s what they are. They are very cold hardy.

My fastest is C. alpinum. This one being approximately fifteen years old from seed. Still no trunk though.

Coming along nicely Tim...sheesh, it's a jungle in there! My Vogelianums were also meant to be parvifrons, but from an earlier batch, so it looks like RPS were getting it consistently wrong, lol. Hopefully we're on the right track with this latest batch. Like you, after the initial disappointment, I'm now really enjoying this species, they're super scruffy and quite adorable, bit like a wet dog!

C vogelianum also my fastest mate. I suspect it’s genetics - its growth habit seems to be more ‘reach for the sky’ than ‘fronds erupting from ground level for decades’ like the really big species. My larger of 2 C vogelianum specimens in the garden is now as tall or taller than all of my other Ceroxylon. It’s from seed from 2018, compared to similar sized C alpinum from 2007 seed. Kind of hard to get a good photo but the C vogelianum is around 2m/7’ tall and it’s starting to look nice and plumose. Was from C ‘parvifrons’ seed from RPS - the initial disappointment of not having parvifrons has worn off seeing this develop, especially now having hopefully true C parvifrons seedlings.

Looking good though Jim, even if slow. Mine are both crawling along, although one seems a bit quicker than the other. The fastest Ceroxylon I have is a vogelianum, which is absolutely flying now, and leaving its three siblings for dead. I've got no idea why that particular palm is so happy, maybe just genetics, who knows?

I only have the generic R. Rivularis , my friend has Glauca . It is much more compact than the huge trunk on my old “Rivie” . They are truly Madagascar’s gems. Years ago the Palm Society did a great expose on this palm . More to it than I thought….. Harry

Here’s mine a year later. Some growth but pretty slow still. I hope it speeds up a bit with time.

Lovely orchid! Makes me think of underwater creatures. I don't know my orchid names very well, but this type always brings to mind the X-wing fighters from Star Wars.