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Looks very tropical, I don't think it would grow well.

Can't remember how closely related Hura is to Manchaneel but like it, ..green fruits / seeds, and milky sap produces toxic compounds that can burn skin. Could be one reason why you don't see them sold in nurseries there. Folks growing them may have obtained them by passing seed around / collecting off wild trees. Wonder how Sterculia apetala ( Panama Tree ) would do there..

Have always liked these medium sized palms and fast growers in my location. Produce seed regularly, providing offspring for other locations in the garden. The pair of taller palms in the one photo are the mother plants for the smaller plants. Tim

This Thai palm has been in the ground awhile now and the large, attractive,segmented leaves are pliable and relaxed rather than stiff and thick. Well behaved and good scale. Me likes this one. Tim

It spouts here in South Florida every day. I just reached down in my yard and pulled out a dozen in one hand and I don't even have a royal palm on my property.

Anybody having issues uploading pics? I keep getting error 200. I remember way back in the day I had to text photos to myself to reduce the file size but it works with some big files and doesn't work with some smaller files.

Ehhhhhh like 5 of the grocery store seeds made it. None of the cool stuff @WaianaeCrider sent me survived. They're such divas and not easy at all to balance moisture and airflow. I did buy a couple Red Ladies and a Hovey from Wellspring. They're all in 5g now, the Red Ladies are in full sun and the Hovey is still on the carport. The Red Ladies are really taking off but it's probably too hot for them and time to feed them. I'm trying to upload pics of the elephant ear bulbs @N8ALLRIGHT sent me but I'm not getting cooperation. I finally sold the last 2 and I have a volunteer from my soil dump pile. At some point some Pink Dragon alocasias will pop up from there. Anyway, as always, more stuff on the evil sites.

Beautiful Jim! Tim

@STEMI That's awesome. Congrats! What's the plan for winter? I have the first couple of H. latispatha starting to flower here, a little earlier than I expected for some given they all froze to the ground in January. I need to get my H. rostrata rhizome I started in the ground.

I am also worried I planted them too deep. I was rushing planting them because I was on a time crunch. They are planted lower than the traditional soil level that surrounds them. I may have planted the root ball too deep that could cause suffocation. (It’s probably about 1-2 inches too deep) How major are these problems? There doesn’t seem to be a good way to fix it other than pulling them up and re planting.

I remember collecting seed of one of these in the Yucatan peninsula back when I thought that this was a Ceiba or something from Bombacoideae, the pod that looks like a pumpkin didn't explode but it had been eaten and was non viable.

Drove by the filifera in Clayton, NC today. It’s looking really good

H. polyandra or crepitans would be the only two choices in the Genus, w/ poly having the wider distribution across Mex. between the two. ( H. crepitans = Caribbean Basin / southern Cen AM / Northern S. AM. ) Interesting tree regardless though i might be mindful of where they are planted ( Seeds are released quite violently, hence one of it's other names being " Dynamite Tree " ) YT short vid discussing it. Seed can be flung at a rate up to 160mph/ 240km/h https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZWGFQ-K67jc Have seen specimens of these growing in Baja when street view touring ...and in Sonora, so i'd imagine surviving in S. TX. should be pretty easy.

I thought I had killed this clump of rostrata by putting it into the ground too early. It got absolutely pummeled by the cold and wind and all of the stalks started snapping and dying. Look out pitiful the clump looks as a Look out pitiful the clump looks as a whole 😂 After all of that, I’m proud to say that I finally have a a rostrata putting out an inflorescence!

Thank you all! As one who enjoys botanical gardens , even when on holiday , I often try to picture the volunteers responsible for the enjoyment of others. A day spent touring one of these treasures is a day well spent. Harry

My Cyphophoenix Nucele has been slow to start but plugging along , as they say. I have a similar climate to Jim and I anticipate a nice growth rate once the C. Nucele and Chambeyronia Pyroformis get established . The New Caledonia palms give a tropical feel to a temperate garden. Harry

The beauty of the pinkish inflorescence on a King palm . The first time I’ve seen the flower open before the leaf base falls . The color was lost a bit when I zoomed in to capture the image , but it sure is colorful to the eye. . It looks like I will be germinating more Archontophoenix . Harry I have quite a few babies from this palm . The Cunninghamiana has a pinkish inflorescence , unlike the white color of the Alexandrae in our courtyard.

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Yea , probably not next to the hot tub!! Location , location , location. Harry😂

Richard , you are an inspiration! Yes , some take quite a while but seeing that sprout or sprouts is a reward . This past several months or so I’ve been dabbling in germinating seeds that @DoomsDave gave me , also seeds from the Sullivans and my own or friends palms . The amount of time each species takes varies significantly. Harry

Yes , I’ve experienced that recently . I potted up about ten Chrsalidiocarpus Blacki seedlings that germinated and already lost two of them . They just weren’t strong enough to survive the transfer . The majority are doing well though. The C. Decipiens that germinated using the baggie method are going strong but only about half of the seeds sprouted . I think the new greenhouse will help the seedlings get through the first year or so. I do plan to add low level heating in the winter. My old greenhouse had a boat heater ( from our sailing days) set on low just to keep the temp up to almost 60f until the sun came up. In nature most seeds don’t survive but enough do to keep the species going. Many factors at play there. Harry

I never thought about roots clinging to or growing through styrofoam. That would be enough to keep me from trying it . My concern was just the mess it can create . I did use aquarium gravel (white) , that I got somewhere for a pond I was building , when I was out of perlite . It seemed to mix in the potting soil ok but not as good as perlite. That’s why I bought the big bag of it recently. Harry

Nice one, great palm to grow needle sharp or not no matter how much a danger palm!

Some good ones in there, it not only takes time, but you need to do large batches if you are to get any decent amount of palms in the end. With the process of natural attrition 100 palms will in the end will give you around 60 to 70 percent winners in that attrition rate. That’s palm growing not every palm gets to live due to many factors at play. Richard