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Verschaffeltia growing nicely, it is very slow growing for me.

they plant these out every year, they're all tender houseplants. i saw them last spring too looked like they were freshly planted

Plumerias are really poppin now! aztropic Mesa, Arizona

these hybrids can be variable, your alberto seems to follow the beastly upright jubaea appearance more than the butia. There is a quite a difference between the BxJ and the JxB from what Ive seen. Yours doesnt have the heavily recurved leaves of the butia mother, its upright, and it has the fattie trunk more like a jubaea. F1 hybrids can vary quite a bit, mules can be more uprright (butia) or weeping(syagrus). Here is my B x J, not sure what subspecies of butia, I got from jungle music. Here is my (BxJ)xJ, with more jubaea blood, from patrick shaeffer Yours looks more like the 2nd one, more jubaea genetic influence. Both are hating the 85-88F weather and grow slowly waiting for winter to green up and speed up. Growth of these palms is probably 2x as fast in winter here with our 55F/75F typical average lows/ highs.

yeah #1 is purpurea, the others I cant tell. I have adult (1)maxima, (2)myolensis, and (3)alexandre and (1) purpurea)_and the differences are subtle in the first 3 species as adults, and just about indistinguishable as juveniles. In shade, the myolensis can get a glaucous tint to he crownshaft. My shaded one gets this, the one in sun does not. The maxima looks like my alexandre as an adult, the myolensis grow slower than the other two. Purpurea can be purple in the crownshaft but that color is very pale in direct sun as in your first pic.

Great explanation & pics Matt. I'm feeling better knowing that the palm we're all growing actually keys out to A. rouselli. When I bought my seedlings from Floribunda years ago, I remember Jeff telling me, "I don't know, they could actually be hybrids between rubra & crinita". I've become a bit of a purist at keeping species separate, despite some of the beautiful hybrids out there.

It now completes, height-wise, with the house.

I can share photos of seeds on the plant of one that has gone more green as it has grown, Plants around this specimen, including the bananas which grow rapidly and are replaced with new stalks every year rub up against the trunk, which could be why it retains no red fuzzy tomenetum. There also was a Guava tree that had branches that would rub up against the trunk which I just removed. It grew fast and I was always having to trim back the branches growing into the adjacent plants. In one of your other posts you noted that your green and red forms flower at different times of year. This specimen seems to pop out a new inflorescence with each new leaf base that is lost, so it is almost continuously flowering. You can see it is still holding several old inflorescense with a flower spathe still unopened.

Bloody hell! So now how big is it in that balmy London clime?

So a strap leaf seedling is actually visible in the May 2017 street view image as well, meaning this London Dacty must have survived the February 2018 freeze when it was very small, as well as the December 2022 freeze. So it would have been growing there at least 9 years now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it grew from a discarded date pip.

The tree still survives in the wild. There must some animal that eats the seed, it could be any sort of animal. But there have been many rainforest tree experts in Australia who would have tried many things. Most plants in cultivation are from cuttings!

They will be an interesting one that’s for sure.

Here we go again a few good ones. A few Pinanga curranii seeds a great Pinanga with a mottled look. And a batch of cycas scratchleyana seeds. Always use new medium and new containers for propagation of seeds, it avoids a lot of problems with fungal diseases.

Thanks I planted quite a few many years ago. Yes one day there will be lots of hookeri seeds. I have grown a lot of Chambeyronia before from seed and they display some red and some green new leaves but most of them eventually get the red leaf . Not a lot of new leaves at the moment but there are a lot spears so soon there will be that red flame in the garden again.

Good news hopefully!😃 I just observed a flowerstalk appearing on one of the inflorescences.

I as m sure my ones will pop up soon!

Thank you Tim, the one i was more worried was A. Purpurea, so now i'm more calm and secure to buy

Hi Harry I have seen quite a few sellers who are very legitimate. And I have also seen quite a few who send out basically dead sticks, and as for seed purchases many a dud seed has been sent out. Yet in the other hand I have also purchased a lot of good seeds. The old saying buyer beware is very true. But for now I will say 99.9 percent are legit, but with over a million plus sellers do the maths on that 0.1 percent and there’s quite a few cowboys in the game so to speak! Richard

My experience with eBay sellers is mixed when it comes to correcting an error. Some will gladly accept information , others not so much . Harry

Color and leaf shape is pretty different. Also, A rubra has white coating on the leaf undersides, particularly obvious when small. And at least from the photos it looks like there are two leaf veins with small hairs/spines on each rubra leaflets. but only one line of hairs/spines and less consistent on rousselii. It's actually kind of surprising how different the seedlings look since the adult plants are pretty hard to tell apart. Matt

Here's a rousselii at same age

Looking up to this Sabal fronds

Lol I guess if I need to cover it, the way it's growing is I could just coil it up like a hose.

I hope that these kingdoms you managed to cross will form a hybrid of interest. And very likely, when none of us are here anymore, send me all the seeds to Chile. More than a monster or dinosaur, it's a masterpiece of the palm grower. Just make sure it maintains its impressive size and harmonious beauty, which it will bestow upon humankind. Jubutia erios

My dwarf clusias have sprouts from about 1 inch above the ground. Big clusia I'm still waiting.