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Dave how has it done with cold weather? I’ve have been reluctant to plant one as I read on PT they don’t do well once it gets below 30. I think you mentioned in the past they grow much faster than Regia.

Thanks Scott.. Crazy, teeny things

That's exactly what royal seeds look like. They are purple/blue when mature and ripe. Those look a little smaller than what I remember, but might germinate anyway. Fruits are usually 1/4" to 3/8" in length. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

When I had more than a couple it was actually my hope to get some up to the Mt Dandenong Ranges Botanical Gardens. Just not sure I’m ever going to get them to a size to be able to hand them over to public gardens where they may not be cared for until they’re good to plant out. The gardens up there certainly do have a better temperature and rainfall profile for G undata than I do at sea level.

Fronds are plumose!! I am famous for not fertilizing when I have a problem with a palm and post it people generally say it needs fertilizer of some kind!! It does get plenty of water because I have a hose that leaks that I haven’t had time to fix so I move it back and forth from one side of the palm to the other!! The thing that stumped me is how short the fronds are and how far apart they are I guess that will change with age

Agreed. I've planted a little forest of them in a small gully, but I'm going to have to do another one with A maxima, because some bloke gave me hundreds of them!

Ripogonum discolor if my research is correct...nice looking vine!

Update: it finally seems to be producing, well, something. They look like fruits, but they’re only about twice the size of BBs. For some reason, I figured a huge palm would probably make at least moderate size seeds. Anyone from Florida care to weigh in on that? Thanks in advance!

Maybe they need to spend summer in the Dandenongs Tim?

Interesting! Wonder if it's related to night temps in summer? Ours are significantly cooler than Auckland, so maybe we're a chance?? Edit: and having said that, we do get temps around 40 every now and then!

Asterogyne martiana, seen in the Botanical Garden of Basilea, Switzerland

I transplanted this one from a JM 15g back in April. It’s a little slow to open leaves but I certainly expect it to survive. It’s maybe five feet tall and has flowered a couple of times, although I hear the inflorescences can be big and these were not.

Confident it’s a Ptychosperma sp. I’d guess P propinquum.

Been growing nicely in deep shade since 2020 Just planted The other day. Iʻm 5ʻ10" tall so itʻs doing just fine.

Not super red today. Has looked better Calyptrocalyx hollrungii This one has looked better.

What a lovely thread - so many great photos, I am always enjoying scrolling through! 🌴 The bougainvillea shot and that evening light on the palm trunk were both beautiful. Just to pull the thread back a bit: the original idea was specifically about palms that show unusual color themselves - red/orange leaf coloring, colorful fruit clusters, unusual trunk or leaf pigmentation, etc. - rather than "green palm + colorful surroundings." Maybe we can steer it back in that direction? Curious to see what else comes up!

Here’s Jayne Mansfield my big Roystonea oleracea. Makes my heart sing to look at that lovely thing. And my big regia in the background.

This is the only one I have so I have no idea if faster. It is certainly different than the palm I was hoping it would be. I was hoping for more of a curved trunk multi so when the large trunks got too big I could cut them down and have smaller trunks to fill in . As it is it kind of blocks part of our view from the deck , but I just love it so much I have left it alone. Harry

My AC decided to stop working Friday afternoon and yesterday my thermometer hit 122F as the high. Hopefully this thing gets fixed soon because it's 90F inside my house here in the east valley.

Hard to get top dollar on oceanfront property with a bunch of dead palms. These palms might have eventually recovered but it’s likely that some would collapse. And it would take several years to look somewhat normal.

Gave every palm a soil drench of 3336F. Time will tell over the new 3 to 4 weeks.

I have 5 extra seedlings, with 3-4 leaves. 5/$40, plus shipping, Spaghum, & box. Or pick up in Satellite BeachBeachpalms@cfl.rr.com

Last but not least I bought 3 more Encephalartos “Trappes Valley” Latifrons last year and 2 of them are flushing right now. Here is one of them.

Encephalartos Cleopatra x True blue Arenarius flushing for the 3rd time since spring! That hybrid vigor us a thing! I have also noticed each leaf it throws is getting bluer.

Hi, my wife is in love with these palm trees and wants to plant as a high-level privacy screen in our backyard above a 8 foot tall fence in a 5’ wide strip between the fence and the pool. We’ve tried identifying them with multiple growers, and each one tells us a different species. Any help would be greatly appreciated. See pictures, both pictured palms and our home are in Miami. Thanks in advance.