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Hi everyone, I'm looking for Chamaedorea radicalis ‘Arborescent’ seeds or small plants. Shipping to Germany should be possible. Please send me a pm when you have anyone of these :-) Best regards, Sebastian

Nicely grown one there Tracy. Seems like near the coast, they don't suffer much brown tipping. Mine is going nowhere fast fortunately. Probably 15 years old & still has held onto all its leaf bases. Looks like a giant fern at this point, as does yours.

Es una palmera muy sensible, incluso los jardines botánicos tienen dificultad en cultivarlo. Es muy probable que tú palmera ya se haya muerto.

Buenas días, tengo está plántula de pseudophoenix ekmanni, que transplante a tierra a sol directo. En 3 semanas se puso color amarilla como seca, se le daba los riegos cada 2 días a 3 días, decidí sacarlo y volver poner en maceta para darle cuidado. Que tendrá mi palmera? Cómo le puedo ayudar a que no se muera? Será alguna clase de hongo? Anexo foto antes y después. Lo blanco que se ve es bicarbonato de sodio. Saludos.

First new leaf since planting out our Lepidorrachis mooreana, obtained from @Darold Petty last autumn.

Seems like acalypha hispida becomes really large in your climate! I thought they stay low.

Love the glossy leaves on these

Interesting I never give mine any supplemental water and they go through extended dry spells, and hang in there.

Did you ever pull the trigger and grow one? They get big over time. I am in a different climate zone but do have experience growing a couple of Caryota species including gigas now lumped in as obtusa. I would not underestimate the project it will be to remove it someday. The one I acquired as gigas is well over 20 years old. The trunk is massive in diameter but it hasn't gained the height of some around town in Encinitas and adjacent communities.

You are great botanists. You know about exotic things.

I ain't got the ambition anymore, Hugo!😁

My first impression with the 20-25 jubaeas in containers and hybrids Ive seen is that it looks like JxB, the jubaea mother. These are great hybrids if they can be happy, and they grow much faster than jubaea. If its a pure jube, I haven't seen one like that in my limited experience. Its surely not a J x B which tend to be much more recurved in the petiole. It also doesnt look like any pure butia species I have seen.

I grounded the Jubaeopsis that germinated May 2024, so two years old now. I left the potted palms out in the weather last winter because there weren’t any freezes but they all developed fungus from too much moisture so I brought them in and treated with hydrogen peroxide for a couple weeks. You can still see the damage.

After about 2 years i waited, finally its getting pinnate😄

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Coastal pasco in the big freeze was anywhere from at freezing on the coast to just below for the windy event, but the cold starts inland from the developed areas during the radiational cold. Its all about location here, not far from me the crownshaft palms are all fine, mine took heavy damage the second night at 24, but i had 12 freezes, while the coast a few miles southwest had just the one- and not far below freezing. Triangles do well as do the other tougher ones but its a hard grow for most.

Just planted this lipstick queen hybrid palm In zone 10b Whittier California ( So Cal ) Los Angeles County It has two suckers growing on it Filtered sun Wish me luck 6/9/26

B alfredii was too slow and tender in zone 9 south Louisiana…… I got them to about 5 feet tall over 10 years but they always looked bad. I pulled them out this spring.

To me, it looks more like a butia.

A couple of Cycas at different stages of flushing in the next photos. The Cycas thouarsii was acquired as a seedling in a 3×9 liner. It is ringed with pups and has a long spread or said differently, it takes a big footprint if allowed. I trimmed many of the lower leaves again, to allow the new flushes space. The almost hardened flush on a Cycas acquirdd as taitungensis is the second plant. It was also acquired as a seedling in a 3×9 liner. Patience is rewarding. I read that Cycss taitungensis has been lumped in with revoluta. This plant has more red fuzz on the lower sides of the rachis and top of the caudex than my plants acquired as revoluta though.

My latest success in germinating . Chambeyronia Hookeri . This sat in my garden all winter , one of two seeds gathered from Sullivan’s palm. Harry Sort of a “Where’s Waldo” situation . I only noticed it a few days ago. Just to the right of the perlite chunks. The seed was very large , almost filling this wee container . Harry

The direction I took the pics from provides the best overall ground to crown visual. But it has the least reflective sunlight to show off the grey colors at that time of day(AM). If you want get a better white grey view, you put the sun at your back, this would be the opposite direction in the AM. This is optical physics applied to plant reflectance and diffuse transmission. I placed these palms so that I had the better view from my yard, not the street view. Here is the opposite view where the sun is at the obvservers back. So consider the view you want with either uresana or bismarckia. I try not to give the street the best view.

I love Australia 🇦🇺

There fantastic little palms, chamaedoreas are one genus to love, but when it comes to these little beauties iam hooked! Richard

I finally see a sprout from one of two seeds I got from Sullivan’s gorgeous Hookeri . I was talking to Terry while admiring the palm full of fruit when I looked down and saw two red fruit on the ground . Terry said to take them , but be patient. They are slow to germinate . Harry I will have to swing by to see if there is any more fruit on the ground . Unfortunately it is too tall to reach .