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Those grassy growths are not part of the palm , at least I’ve never seen anything like that growing out of a Rhapis palm. Your palm looks healthy and I wouldn’t worry too much about the change in location , as long as it gets bright , indirect light. I would remove the grassy stuff when you repot it . To me , your palm looks more like a Rhapis Humilus than Excelsia . The pointy leaf tips are not typical of Excelsia that usually have blunt , toothed tips. Harry Leaf tips of outdoor grown Rhapis Excelsia with some sun exposure You can see the tips are blunt and toothed. I hope this helps. The Rhapis Humilis , which is what I believe you have , would come to a point at the tips.

C nubium is such a great palm to grow from seed. Very robust, I’ve never lost one and relatively quick too. The one I planted in the ground in Spring is now flowering and producing clean trunk and it’s only a bit over 3 years old. Got a bit burnt from our extreme heat days this summer when this photo was taken but it’s just superficial and still growing well. This species has absolutely no problem with long cool winters; I suspect it would do well down in Tassie (and cool parts of SF Bay, etc)

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I’m not sure fertilizing after root trimming while wintering these palms is the right approach . Also , these would benefit a bit cooler environment than 90 f + . Here in Southern California , where we grow them quite easily year round outdoors , I never fertilize them , just copious amounts of water , especially in warmer weather . They look much better in cooler temps , say mid 70’s f to low 80’s with night time temps around 52 - 57 f. It is very typical for these to become root bound when grown in containers , so moving them up in pot size is needed more frequently than some other palms. Harry

A few more across the bench. A nice little Geonoma interupta from @tim_brissy_13 that’s still doing well. And a couple of basselina pseudovelitina growing well. And a hundred percent strike rate on a few Cham Metallica palms from home grown seeds.

Not an expert on Sabal but that seems very unusual. Harry

Very cool palm . Hopefully this species will become more readily available in time. Harry

I don't remember what @Scott W said this was hybridized with but I swear it's half sago half pothos.

.....Best never to move here cuz' you'll do nothing but whine about how boring and lifeless it is.... Saguaro gearing up a bit earlier than they should be here as well.. I see you.. ...... Such a hell-ish place.. Prob. better to live where there are Hurricanes all the time.

...Desert is such a dry and boring place.. Nothing green ..anywhere.. ....Can you find the Egret... ..Sooo Boring... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Bright but cloudy Monday morning in April = a good day for a check - in - on at a park i haven't visited in sometime.. Neighborhood Ironwoods starting to light up along the way.. Always interesting how variable all of these specimens are, despite growing right next to each other along the same stretch of road.. Spring Scenes from the Riparian Ranch in Gilbert.. Feathered Friends observed today, posted elsewhere. Perfect Agave specimens.. Tree in one of the shots = Celtis reticulata, Western Hackberry.. Ethrostemon gilliesii Parkinsonia microphylla ' Squites - a - plenty here... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I think it's 99% genetics. You will see dozens all in one neighborhood planted ages ago with probably no care (surrounded by lawn, never pruned, sometimes car parked on top lol). The vast majority are on the ugly side imo, the fat full crown ones like pictured occur at a rate of like one for every few dozen. You will see all different crown shape, leaf color from dull green to steel blue to almost white, trunk size, etc all from palms of similar age and presumably origin. Queens are kinda the same, highly variable looks despite all being from the box store. Even all of the Butia planted along the Gulf Freeway are highly variable despite a near control for environment.

6” seed grown plant. Located in SoCal $400 pick up only.

A nice lepidozamia hopei flush with a beautiful plant in cone! A lovely pair sitting together!

Found five Nubium a in the back of the greenhouse, it’s great having so many plants. You forget what you have until you see them again. So a quick repot and we have great chamaedoreas underway ready for next springs plantings.

I have not seen or heard of that before.

You missed one key element patience, the rest I can live with!

That’s my understanding too. This one is definitely either a dwarf or what they call a semi dwarf.

Oh theres a lot I can’t grow successfully, water and cold with cold being the biggest drawback challenge!

Chrysalidocarpus loucoubensis was formerly known as Dypsis ampasindavae. Very different to C madagascariensis (D lucubensis).

With three small ones next to the big one they have something to aspire too.