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Germinating attalea cohune
by happypalms- 2 followers
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I managed to germinate 4 out of 5 attalea seeds I acquired they should be ok in my climate they took more than six months to germinate bottom heating 30 degrees Celsius coco coir perlite mix but another palm for the collection
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Pindo palm
by nessa- 2 replies
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Just wondering what the black markings are on the spindle. I attached some pictures.
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Planning a Trip to Florida - What are the best places to visit?
by agroventuresperu- 1 follower
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What are your recommendations? I want to see the most awe-inspiring botanical/palmarium gardens. @piping plovers perhaps has some knowledge on this topic?
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Palms of Coastal Georgia
by NC_Palms- 1 follower
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Some palmy photos that I have taken within the past few months in coastal Georiga. Tybee Island, GA Tybee Island seems to be the northernmost location in the Eastern U.S where queen palms (Syagrus romanzoffiana) are common. I have seen a few queens in Hilton Head Island but never as much as I see on Tybee Island. I don't think the climate varies that much between Hilton Head and Tybee since they technically are only divided by the Savannah River. IMO, some of the nicest CIDPs that I have ever seen in the South are in Georiga. Washingtonia is another common palm on Tybee Island. A few of these palms have na…
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Nenga banaensis
by sgvcns- 13 replies
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This is a palm I have been looking for on a few trips to Vietnam. Unfortunately it was a wet morning and I had to climb a slippery slope of clay and loose gravel to get to the forest. Once I was up in the forest on the slippery trail there it was.
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Here we go again - creating Pepe'ekeo Palm Paradise 1 2 3
by Hilo Jason- 11 followers
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I've been meaning to start this thread for awhile now, but have been too busy with the work that this new property has needed to have much free time to post about it. We are rained in here on the Big Island for a few days, so the time has come to finally document this project and what will soon be our new home here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Quick recap, our family moved from Fallbrook, CA to Hilo, Hawaii in 2017. We have a great home in town on 1/2 acre of land. You can read all about the creation of that garden here. It's amazing how quickly you can fill up 1/2 acre here, especially when there was already some existing fruit trees and landscaping that we ha…
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Why do you like palm trees?
by Ivanos1982- 16 replies
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I'm curious to know the reason(s). I read a post stating when people first started liking palms but I wanna know, what attracts you to them? For me, palms represent evolutionary success. A palm is basically a monocot plant that was able to evolve developing a trunk and able to reach impressive heights above other plants/trees. My grandma used to say "las palmeras están borrachas del sol" (palm trees are drunk with the sun) and it makes sense. They went way up there and are able to reach that light more than others. Now not all palms do this but the ones that do really blow my mind. They are also a staple of the tropics to me. Showing how impressive yet fragile they a…
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I bought a relatively expensive pindo/jelly palm last year, in Cornwall, UK. It was kept in close proximity to hundreds of other palms, in a pot. It had curved leaves because of the closeness of the other palms, which I thought would straighten out when we got it home and in the ground. It didn't straighten out, and it seems to not be growing at all. Everything else in our garden is happy and thriving, but perhaps our most expensive plant is sitting dormant, and possibly deteriorating, and making the place look like a mess! I checked on it this week, and noticed it now has developed some odd spots on the leaves which look like a mold or infestation of some …
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I have a Mediterranean Fan palm that is about 6 feet tall that I transplanted from a little pot in 2007. It has grown out at a 45 degree angle and now is impinging on my little gravel road that goes around one side of my house, so that I hit it every time I drive by in my truck. One way or another, that has to end and simply trimming it will not suffice. I want to attempt to relocate it, just a couple of feet back from the road, and I have a big electric wench that I can use to move it. It's going to be really heavy. So, the question is does anyone have experience relocating a Med Palm? I know they are not the same as other palms like Windmills, Date Palms, etc, an…
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100% germination rate on corypha umbellatum
by happypalms- 1 reply
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Once again I was gifted theses seeds by a quality local grower of palms who knows his stuff on palms a very knowledgeable person to know one conversation with them and you learn a lot about palms I was successful in a 100% germination rate so high quality seeds were obtained now all have to do is grow them successfully they were community planted in a ten inch pot and still not quite deep enough but success was achieved still coco coir perlite bottom heating 30 degrees Celsius
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Details about areca catechu dwarf... help
by Gottagrowemall- 10 replies
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I have two Christmas palms on opposite sides of my garage that I got from Walmart for like 14-20$ 4 years ago and they've grown fantastic against the stone wall. I have protected them probably 4-5 times over the last 4 years by tying up the fronds and putting something out to prop up a covering that doesn't touch them. This year in Palm Coast we haven't really been under 40 much or seen frost at all so they still look solid. They're already starting to go over the roofline and by next winter will be too large to protect. Soooooo I'm saying all of this because I'm expecting them to not be a long term solution in that spot. (I'll add pics later). Tell me about a…
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New Palms x3 for 2024
by PalmatierMeg- 1 follower
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I've been hit or miss here most of this past miserable fall and winter. While our ultimate low was a relatively mild 44.8F here in Cape Coral we've had a record 84+ sunless days, drizzle/downpours and highs that often barely rose past 60F. Not our typical sunny, dry, warm/cool winter days. We've had more rain this winter than all of last summer. I've been unable to work in the soggy yard for weeks at a time. Our gardens are a mess. But in the last week or so the sun has made a miracle return and brought days in the 70s to 80F. This past Saturday I went to the biggest garden festival in the area at the Edison-Ford Estate in downtown Ft. Myers. I ended up with three sm…
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Help with my palm
by Latency- 1 follower
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I was wondering if anyone could identify my palm by picture and tell me why one trunk of the palm has no new growth but the other looks healthy. We fertilized it about 2 weeks ago with sunniland palm fertilizer and we are hoping the left side isn't dead
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Royal Palm Tree in burbank California
by palmkid- 3 replies
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1003 S Bruce Ln https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fiwf3iRpLGwPFR3u9 this is royal palm I found in burbank on Google maps
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New Palm Tree Arrival
by Palmtreedude69- 1 follower
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Sorry if I did this incorrectly this is my first time using this website last weekend I was at the Edison And Ford Winter Estates in fort myers Florida and picked up some unique palms any comments will be appreciated! Now to the palms I got and what I payed for them. Starting with The first one to the right Ptychosperma elegans $25 Roystonea Regia $20 Satakenita liukiuemsis $35 Strelitzia reginae $15 Bentinckia nicobarica $15
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Worried About My Newly Planted Palm Trees
by Fruitcup- 1 follower
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Hi All! I planted 4 quad adonidia palms on January 11th in Naples Florida. I watered them daily the first week, every 2 days the second week and have been watering them 2X per week since then. I'm worried about how they're doing as I have some bent and browning fronds. Do you think this is just shock from being planted, or am I doing something wrong? I've attached some pictures. Thanks for any help. I definitely want them to live and am open to any suggestions/advice.
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Buying plants again
by happypalms- 3 replies
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At it again can’t help myself a anthurium warocqueanum x panamense and a socratea rostrata the hybrid anthuriums a bit better in the cold weather a lot tougher the hybrids but a good fix for the season
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Beautiful Palms of Tampa, Oct/Nov 2023
by PalmatierMeg- 3 replies
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I'm trying to clear a backlog of photos of palms in Tampa I took last fall. We temporarily moved to Airbnbs for 2+ months while my husband was treated at Moffitt Cancer Center with CAR T therapy for lymphoma. I wanted to take lots of photos of local Tampa palms but as we spent 10-12 hours per day at the hospital my choices of photo ops were limited. I had no time nor energy to visit really well known gardens like Kopsick so I settled on 3 venues: 1) some of the nicely curated palms on Moffitt campus; 2) a commercial nursery a couple miles from our Airbnb; and 3) a small botanical garden associated with USF campus. It was having a botanical festival that weekend. I bought …
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Rocky soil 1 2
by Than- 1 follower
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I hope I am posting in the right subforum. So, to my dismay, I recently discovered that under the top layer of my newly acquired land, there are rocks. We are talking big and small rocks, everywhere. It was hard even for the hard machinery to dig. They suggested I add soil on top. The other solution would be to bring special machinery to try and break and remove as much stone as possible but that would be costly probably.. What depth should soil have for palms and other trees and shrubs? Would 15 inches (40 cm) suffice? Anyone else with rocky soil here?
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Is it possible to identify which Licuala these are?
by miamicuse- 12 replies
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I have a number of Licuala sp. seedlings but no idea specifically what they are. Is it possible at this stage to tell what these might be?
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Potting some red Areca vestria sprouts
by happypalms- 10 replies
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These red Areca seeds were gifted to me from a local Australian with an amazing garden one of the best palm collections I have seen growing with very advanced palms and exotic plants an incredible garden I commented many a time to the garden owner how incredible his garden was with such a great vision he had 40 years ago his knowledge of plants was amazing the seeds were collected fresh on the day out of 140 seeds in one box 60 germinated I was told to expect a low germination rate correct they were bottom heating 30 degrees Celsius ph buffered coco coir perlite mix with constant temperature at 30 virtually no fluctuations in temperature from my little experience with th…
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A couple of Chambeyronia macrocarpa watermelon photos
by happypalms- 1 reply
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Another great looking palm highly sought after by collectors the watermelon 🍉
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Could it be? - Butia odorata x Cocos nucifera F1 1 2 3
by Jonathan Haycock- 16 followers
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One of the main reasons I emigrated to Australia (from UK) was to indulge a passion for growing palms and to have a crack at creating cocoid hybrids. We landed in Adelaide June 2019 and I immediately got to work producing Butia odorata x Jubaea chilensis F1, Butia odorata x Parajubaea torallyi var torallyi F1, and Butia odorata x Syagrus schizophylla F1. We moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland January 2022, where I've since made Butia odorata x Syagrus coronata F1 and what I hope is Butia odorata x Cocos nucifera F1. There are a few reports/threads online that claim to have a cross with Cocos nucifera, but they tend to be quite vague and inconclusive. The objective o…
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Lemurophoenix laevis
by Max974- 1 follower
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Start of germination in early November 2023
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Geonoma undata leaves become perforated
by Foggy Paul- 1 follower
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Hi all. I know this species is notoriously difficult, but I'm in a climate where it should be reasonably happy--cool summers, no frost, plenty of fog and moisture. Our baby Geonoma continues to grow (slowly), but eventually each leaf develops perforations that really detract from the appearance. I have looked closely many times and found no evidence of mites or anything else that would seem to cause it. Any ideas? Or is this just a hazard of growing G. undata?