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Snowy Palm Pix
by tjwalters- 21 replies
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We were buried under 26" of snow here, just east (11 miles) of Washington, DC. Digging out was a real chore...until the guy with the Bobcat showed up. (More pix http://home.comcast.net/~tjswebpix/Blizzard2010/'>here.) Seven-foot tall Rhapidophyllum hystrix: Sabal minor w/ berries:
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Bluer than blue 1 2
by Gileno Machado- 63 replies
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Allez les bleus !! Please add pictures of glaucous, bluish, azuladas palmas...here are a few: Young Bismarckia nobilis
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Washingtonia robusta
by Tassie_Troy1971- 18 replies
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Here is a pic of my washy robusta back in early Febuary 2009
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Dypsis madagascariensis
by Brian- 6 replies
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This palm has always looked good until about a month ago when the leafs started to brown. It almost looks like sunburn but its always been in full sun and looked good. All I can think of thats different is that I added 4 tree fertilizer spikes next to the drip emiters. Does this look like fertilizer burn to you guys? Any other ideas on whats going on? Thanks for any advise you can give. Brian Dypsis madagascariensis.bmp
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Name That Infruct
by freakypalmguy- 22 replies
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Found this new one the other day. See if you can ID it
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some palms to ID please
by fiji jim- 20 replies
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I have two different palms here that I would like to identify. First is a Dypsis I think and if I am correct the seed was purchased as D.ambrositrae in 2005. It does not resemble the true D.ambrositrae. Here is a view of it from above.
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Sun loving palms in shade
by SubTropicRay- 11 replies
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Have you ever grown a palm known to love full sun and had success with it in a shady spot? Ray
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Dypsis sp "malagosy" & Dypsis sp "manambato"
by PalmatierMeg- 5 replies
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Nearly a year ago I received seedlings of these two Dypsis from a now-defunct palm seller. Both have grown very well so far in my climate, surviving both summer heat/humidity and winter chill (though I stashed them in my heated-at-night shadehouse during the 2-week cold spell). They are still in the seedling stage but I have been unable to find out anything about them from outside sources. I have observed the following about them: Dypsis sp. "malagosy" or "malagasy" This is the smaller of the two but doesn't appear to be an "ankle biter" palm. The major thing I've noticed about my 75+ seedlings is that the base and petioles have red/rosy coloration and a scatteri…
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Palms by night
by mpiodi- 13 replies
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By chance I discovered that palms, photographed by night, reveal special effects and a strange beauty Here are some pics Sabal yapa
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New Red frond thread
by Central Floridave- 1 follower
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Just another red frond popping up on my hookeri. All my Chambeyronia survived our recent freeze event with no damage. Unprotected other than under oak canopy. I like it when they pop out a new frond! Everything else is brown, but the Red Feather's don't miss a beat.
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Champion clumping Palms
by Gileno Machado- 2 replies
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One species I'm growing here really amazes me for the prolific ability to develop numerous suckers. It's my Dypsis lutescens variegated form (picture below). Chamaedorea brachypoda is another species that develops many stems. Other heavy clumpers here are Salacca Zalacca, Cyrtostachys renda, Chamaedorea cataractarum... What are the most prolific palms when it comes to vegetative development of multiple trunks?
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Double coconut in Californy?
by DoomsDave- 10 replies
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Howdyall: That thread about the Double Coconut in Miami and environs made me wonder if anyone ever tried one here? I suspect not, given the extreme difficulty in obtaining seeds. The big question is: will they tolerate our long, cool season? Anyone have any thoughts, experiences or blather they want to share?
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Brahea brandegeei and B. armata (?) together
by fastfeat- 1 reply
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I found this older pic that a friend had sent me from his travels in Mexico. Sorry, I can't be more specific as to where it was taken. But he did confirm that the greener were B. brandegeei, less certain if the grayer were B. armata or not. Sorry it's not of higher res, but...
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Palms spending winter indoors
by Rafael- 5 replies
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Since i began bringing indoors some palm species i realized that its behaviour is quite differente! Some of them are quite strong, facing dryness, other dont. Some want lots of sunlight, others goes fine without it. Some palms do not agree with indoors heat equipments, then its leafs get dry! I am quite unsure about how to manage with water, soil moisture, sunlght, heat equipments, humidity (65%)! Cause my roebelleni (or, as someone said, loureirii) is doing great, but veitchia joannis and alexandrae are geting dry on its leafs! I havent change these two to bigger pots, cause i am waiting spring and a good moisture. Any advisements??????
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Palm pics in the fog
by yachtingone- 7 replies
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These first two photo's I took and posted 11/30/08 This is the first fog we have had since then 2/05/10 Freaky 1, I will wrap the jaccuzzi before I take any more pics...
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Kerriodoxa elegans indoors
by Zeeth- 12 replies
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So I like the look of Kerriodoxa elegans, and they are hardy to my zone, but they get roughed up in the wind, so I was thinking about making an attempt at one indoors. How do they hold up to low humidity and the constant cool temps of the indoors? Do they dislike being rootbound? I could see them not minding the low light, and liking the lack of wind, so that gives hope to indoor culture. Any opinions on this special palm? Keith
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Mystery Palms Set #2
by PalmatierMeg- 2 replies
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As I mentioned in a previous post, sun, wind and rain have erased some of the ID tags in my shade palm garden. Will people help me out with some more names? Thanks Mystery Palm #4 Mystery Palm #5 Mystery Palm #6
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Yatay or not??
by Vic- 5 replies
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This was bought as a small yatay a few years ago and has been grown in the UK from seed, however i had some doubt that is was a yatay as it looked unlike others that were being imported. But there have not been small yatays available in the UK only trunked specimens, so i have had nothing to gauge it against. Apparently the seeds were elongated which yatay seeds are. What do people think? Capitata or Yatay?
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Feb 1 2010 after 15F damage report
by TonyDFW- 1 follower
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It has been a few weeks since we had that prolonged cold spell with a minimum of 15F. Since that time we also had a week with temps mostly in the 60s and 70sF. Here is how my garden looks in Dallas, TX. I hope it gives others ideas on what types of palms do well in USDA zone 8b. We also had a frozen precipatation event with snow. Large filibusta had lower leaves burned. All the plants in my garden were grown from seedlings.
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Facebook has palm talk page
by yachtingone- 17 replies
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To find palm talk type palmtalk in search part of your facebook page. You can send a link to palm talk to your facebook page.
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Cutting and sealing trunks on Phoenix reclinata?
by rsproule- 3 replies
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I have a reclinata that needs to be thinned out. I want to cut out some 4” diameter trunks. I live in a very hot & dry area of Northern California. Do I need to seal the stumps with some sort of pruning sealer? If so, any suggestions for which product to use? Any suggestions on the safest way to remove the trunks would be greatly appreciated! Ryan - Zone 9B – Sacramento area
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Massif Makay Madagascar
by bruno- 1 reply
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Hello palm fanatics Go to this topic on travelog, I have posted this link.on a new expedition going on right now. bruno http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22125&st=0&gopid=368610&#entry368610
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Cold hardy drive-bys in Houston area
by war_eagle- 12 replies
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Sorry for the poor quality, these were taken with my phone. Here is a Sabal mexicana at a small nursery/fruit stand in the Pearland area, about 10 miles south of Houston. Here is another Sabal mexicana at the same place. Notice the burned queen fronds on the left side and burned washy frond on the right side from the January freezes. If you look closely you can barely make out a decent sized Butia in the background, to the left of the Sabal. Here is an older Butia capitata in the Jersey Village area, which is northwest of Houston. It has a nice lean going away from the large oak tree that shares the front yard. That's it for now.
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Livistona
by swolf- 27 replies
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I've been doing some research on Livistona. I'm not a fan of sharp spines and thorns -- expecially when the palm is NOT self-cleaning. Most Livistona are pretty heavily armed, but I understand at least the Chinese fan (L. Chinensis) is self-cleaning. There's very little else on the web about other hardy varieties -- self-cleaning or not? Hardy Livistona appear to include Decora/Decipiens and Mariae (and similar Rigida) among others. I think I read that Decora/Decipiens is also self-cleaning. Any additional information would be very appreciated! Steve St. Augustine, FL
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Midway Atoll 28 ° 12' North 1 2
by Walt- 1 follower
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I know there was past discussion here about how far north (or south, depending on what side of the equator you are on) coconuts grow and produce fruit. The other day I was killing time and stumbled upon some websites about Midway Island in the north Pacific ocean, approximately midway from the USA and Japan, east Asia etc., hence the name Midway. Up until the mid 1990s, Midway was basically a small U.S. Navy base, since closed down and turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the late 1990s. For latitude reference, Midway lies on approximately the same latitude as Melbourne, Florida, on Florida's east coast, and just south of Tarpon Springs, Florida, on Flo…
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