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Bonjour, je vous partage une expérience débuté en Mars. Le projet est de multiplier la tête de ce cycas. Je ne pense pas avoir réussi, mon erreur est de n'avoir pas avoir assez scalper la tête pour trouver le point blanc du cœur. J'ai dévié la tête je pense, mais pas multiplier. Je referai l'expérience.

Thanks for the ID, I inherited my father’s collection, and he never labeled them just collected them!

Lucky Hawaii growers! Plant that cabbadae before winter gets your way! Richard

Normanbya is a beautiful palm, iam getting a few more seeds next month I like them that much, but definitely a humid climate with good rainfall palm to look there best.

Their native habitat is up north in cyclone country, so no wonder they stand up to hurricanes!

That’s one way of explaining it I guess. I dread the day my ones start seeding, might just cut the flower of I think. They are a winner for a lot of reasons!

I think you may be right, I got it off a guy on eBay who had a bunch of interesting ones didn’t catch his name though. …so I have these in a shopping cart and trying to decide if I want to spend the almost $400 for all these seeds. I already got the small lot seeds import permit but playing the tape forward I see a lot of potential frustration of not having seeds germinate and then a long road of having a million pots to take care of for years.. but it could also be really fun and rewarding..

I’m sorry I probably didn’t word it right. I don’t doubt that the palm you posted in Pauleen Sullivans garden is correctly labeled and really is Archontophoenix purpurea. What I meant was the palm I posted up can’t be Archontophoenix purpurea because it’s 900km south of the Mt Lewis area. The purple palm I posted has no white under the leaflets, or whiskers under the mid rib. All Archontophoenix purpurea are white underneath and have those whiskers. Seed size is vastly different between the two as well as first leaf size of seedlings. Archontophoenix purpurea has large bifid leaves for ages. These ones are small from the beginning.

No, my big queen is not flowering yet. Hoping she does next year.

Any updates on the seedlings? I am working with another PT member who has a dozen (or more) mature Jubaea x butia of Patric's that are producing fertile seeds. Saw low germination numbers the first round, have about 450 seed collected and cleaned about to go into germination beds with this second round. Small seed is standard Butia odorata seed.

Was the the queen used to make your mule palms ?

Also what's your watering schedule?

Yes you will see Normanbya a bit, more up north than in my subtropical climate. Some resorts have them, whoever the landscaper was some years ago doing contracts must have known there stuff and was getting palms from up north near cairns. In my area you have to know what you’re looking at but they are around.

I’m pretty sure that the Sullivans had this palm labeled correctly . Only one is Archontophoenix and the fronds and crown shaft are not visible in the photo . The fronds that are visible are not Archontophoenix but something else. The collection was started sometime in the 1950’s Pauline and her husband have both passed on but the son and , now grandson , are maintaining the properties that have the collections . The rotted fruit could be from something else , there are a lot of palms there and I’m not sure the Archie is fruiting , it is very old and super tall. It isn’t as tall as the Ceroxilyn but close! Unfortunately I couldn’t get a pic of the fronds or the Purple Crown , the trunk seems to disappear into the sky! Small city lot with lots of mature palms. I have Purple crown Archontophoenix juveniles from my friends palm and yes they have silver undersides like Maxima and Alexandrae . Harry

So you were weaned on fosters. Just look at some of the beer in Belgium, unobtainable in Australia. One of the reasons is our alcohol content law is way below what the average Belgium beer is. But not many drink fosters in Australia.

Start tracking it down and have a good look, they are a bit cool tender. You need that right microclimate for them and good soil and moisture but once established they are a beautiful palm. Here’s a nice example of a Normanbya, one in a subtropical climate near the coast not far from me.

As you are aware of this is the colouration of the southern population of bangalows. Iam leaning on purperea that was my first thought. And as discussed with you iam sure if it was a different species they would be onto it. Keep looking you just never know what you will find. Trucking around the country side, be calling you the Leyland brothers next or is that Malcom Douglas.

Here’s big Jubutea — yowza no point in the Shoe. It’s about 25-30 feet overall with about 7-8 feet of trunk.

Really need to know trunk size, soil type, field dug/regenerated and were they hurricane cut.

Very interesting and beautiful palms, thanks for sharing. Mt Dalrymple is close to Eungella which is known as the northernmost population of A. cunninghamiana. Bangalows also would be more likely to have this coloration than alexandrae, I think. I wonder if they might be hybrids. I would love to see more in depth study of the genus, clearly there is a lot of variability within especially A. cunninghamiana.

Top one is Aechmea caudata.

Help! Our sabal palms were planted a month ago. Been watering. Looked at soil and it’s wet so stopped watering. 2 trees look like they are dying. One has two dropped leaves that are green. The other one has dropped leaves and browning. Center is also browing. I went and tried to pull center and it will not move. I did pour 1/4 cup of hydrogen proxcide down center. I am so worried.

As much as I love a good palm, I won't pay the over $300 ask for a 2G palm pot.

This can’t be Archontophoenix purpurea, what was called Archontophoenix sp Mt Lewis. Archontophoenix purpurea is white under the leaves with those little whiskers under the middle vein. These palms have neither. This area is around 900km (540 miles) further south than Mt Lewis. It’s Mt Dalrymple at about 1000m altitude. Archontophoenix purpurea has large fruit. These guys have small fruit like alexandrae. Lots of rotten seed on the ground. It’s a bit early for ripe fruit on these. Lots of pink flowers and immature fruit.

Highly doubt an accumulation of May /June / Chafer beetles would cause what your seeing.. If so, they would cause similar issues ...practically everywhere... they occur ..And that is A LOT of places, lol.. Having lived in both Ohio and Kansas, < ...especially... ..where accumulations of these little dudes are so thick when they emerge, you can sit out by a streetlight and watch Frogs / Toads try to put a dent in the ......100's.... of them that land ...in just that particular spot.. ..on any given night between late May and mid - August.. Never once heard of them causing roof / gutter - related issues. While in KS, in the morning after a big night, i could easily fill a 3gal bucket w/ the dead bodies of all that the beetle eaters couldn't get to, that had been attracted to the back patio at the time. From the picture looking into the gutter, it looks like water may be sitting in that area??. If so, and there was some sort of pre- installation manufacturing issue w/ the material in that particular spot, that could have caused what you're seeing. As far away as the angle is, tough to tell if the black stuff is just organic material that had stuck to the underside of the gutter after a spill over event, or is proof that water has indeed rusted thru the spot overed in it. Regardless, Totally agree that ...Since the gutter way installed just a few months ago, it shouldn't be having such issues this soon. Time for a refund, or new, doesn't - cost -you- anything, replacement.