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Hi, have you some Chamaedorea benzei seeds for sale. I live in France Nicolas

Yep, but i keep trying with C.nucifera. No luck yet!

New leaf on an Alocasia Cuprea Red Secret. The camera does this color no justice. It's so shiny and metallic.

So what y'all are saying is y'all should buy stuff so i can get some 4x4 posts and some Quikrete and shade cloth.

I acquired this as Encephalartos middelburgensis as a 2 leaf seedling. Some have said it looks more like nubimontanus but it has more upright leaflets than the nubimontanus I am growing. Perhaps a nubimontanus × middelburgensis. Patience and cones may sort out the mystery for me. Both the main caudex and the largest pup are pushing out flushes in the photos below.

@quaman58 great gift I paid over $100 for mine like yours about 6” or less 2 fronds!! Thanks for the info I have a teddy bear palm growing in semi shade in my area it is one of my fastest growing palms and have a triangle palm beside it giving some shade I may plant mine close by!! So I guess they are pretty fast growers! Thanks for the information!!!

I was gifted a seedling about 8 years ago, maybe 6" tall at the soil line. Within a year or so, I shoehorned it into an area that was a bit protected from full on sun by an umbrella tree. Like their parents, they don't seem too fussy about exposed locations, handling sun pretty well. Water requirements are modest as well, relatively speaking. It's about 8 ft. tall now, so growth rate on my hillside is moderately fast. Cool palm, one of only a handful of hybrids I have.

Really nice palms you have there. @Allen is a great source for protection methods for sure. You are on the west side of the Appalachian mountain range from me here outside of Washington, DC in Northern Virginia, so you guys in that region seem to get more severe winter weather. With the right protection, they can do well. But a winter like we had here last winter can really do a number on even the hardiest, like unprotected Needle palms. As yours establish, they’ll become more tolerant of cold. You look to be in a 7a growing zone. I’m in 7b with a back yard south facing growing zone and that is most beneficial for natural protection. I’ve had a Trachy in-ground for 12-years and it’s 13’ tall now and I do give it minimal Christmas light/heat protection at the crown. Still, every winter it suffers frond damage. However, it recovers quickly and I clean out the ugliness toward fall. Hope all goes well and you’ve come to the right place for advise.

I just bought a seedling tribear at a crazy price and would like any information from people growing them! How much sun they take water requirements any other information so I don’t lose it!!! Thank you in advance!!!

Thank you…the picture doesn’t really show the damage to the fronds. All of them really got hammered. But I do like the way it keeps on ticking.

Thanks for the replies . I found a few at Lukas Nursery in Oviedo Florida , and drove there yesterday and brought one home . They are via Monrovia , and are definitely the true patented one .

Great photos of a nice palm Alberto. I think it shows it’s either L decora or L drudei, but we probably already established that earlier. I’m sure someone will confidently know based on your photos. I can’t say im an expert on the differences, but palmpedia suggests drudei has purplish leaf bases vs green for decora, reddish curved spines on petiole margins vs black curved spines for decora, and inflorescences branched to 3 orders vs 4 for decora. Despite your clear photos and the clear description differences, I still can’t say I’d confidently know 🤣. Actually maybe zooming in I might see 4 orders of branching on the inflorescences but I’m not certain. I’d say it might be a stretch to call those leaf bases purple too. I’m leaning towards L decora but not confidently.

Lol this is the easiest Sabal sp to be identified.

Yes cover the crown, you want to keep moisture out of the spear during the winter. This whole setup breathes between the frost cloth and leaves and mulch. And you could remove layers but since it breathes I generally don't. The palm is kind of hibernating so it does fine for 3 months with little sunlight ( some makes it through the frost cloth) December is when it gets its coat dependent on forecast and March it comes off. Lastly is a picture of my winter setup.

Yesterday I cleaned the trunk from a thick layer of two fern species.

This is from seed from Colin’s red fuzzy crownshaft B hapala. He coined the Red Velvet term so I’ll go with that. If you do a search there’s some pics of the mother plant on this forum and it was discussed recently in a thread.

I lost my economy to scale and don’t want to find it again. That’s one trick to it all, dont let it overwhelm you. But i honestly think it’s the love of palms that drives the bus. Richard

Good to see those human figures are the team that discovered it!

Great palm.

The only thing I know about Sabals is Sabal mauritiformis! Apart from that I know nothing about them.

The good old Chambeyronias!

I would be losing them as well , if I had that many . I spend a lot of time in our garden but only have a small fraction of what you have. I honestly don’t know how you do such an amazing job at it. Harry

That’s fairly young but not uncommon for Chamaedorea . Good looking palm. Harry