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Another ID
by bubba- 1 reply
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I believe if you look at the middle of this house, you will see a certain variety of Palm indigenous to Australia and New Guinea. I appologize that it is not as clear as it should be:
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Wierd Livistona
by MattyB- 4 replies
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I acquired this as L. rigida. Check out the hooks on the leaf margins. I thought only Copernicia did this. It has those purple tones that Livistona gets. What do you think? L. rigida or a Copernicia?
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Another Palm ID
by AJ_del- 2 replies
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Hi everyone This is a plam commonly seen in Delhi, India. In local nurseries it is known as Desi Palm. Desi means local in Hindi. So basically it is called local palm. Looks quite similar to livistona chinensis. Can you help identify it. Best Regards
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Pics wanted of Wodyetia bifurcata
by Tampa Scott- 14 replies
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I am looking for pics of the foxtail palm. Requesting close ups of leaflets and pics of crownshaft. Post if you have pics. Thanks in advance.
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Help with ID please
by Roses- 2 replies
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I am new to Palm Talk and must say that this is a great forum. Although have loved and grown (with reasonable success) palms for many years, I am just starting to take a serious interest in them. I am very green on botanical names and the structure of palms. Can anyone help me ID this palm? It was planted out for a few years with several other baby palms but hardly grew - the others did. It has been in a pot for about 2 years pending planting out in a new position- once I find out what conditions it likes. It has not grown much in the pot although I have kept it in various shade and sun spots for several months at a time.
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I posted this in another thread, but wanted to bring it into its own topic for some input. Any thoughts from those in areas subject to cold air drainage (such as the hills/canyons of California)?
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Attalea rostrata...
by Kostas- 28 replies
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Hello! I was searching for more info on Attalea butyracea and came accross an older(1999) paper that mentioned the proposal of naming the only Costa Rican native Attalea species that was considered to date A. butyracea,A. rostrata...Did this change occured?I ask as i read on Eric's thread about lightning strike killing palms at Leu Gardens that they had a A. rostrata...Is this name valid?If yes,what are its differences from A. butyracea?How tall(trunk) does it get in maturity and how long are the fully mature leaves of this species? Thank you very much in advance!
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Help with another ID please
by Roses- 2 replies
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I got this palm from the sick bay of a local nursery which generally only stocks the more common varites of palms found in SE Queensland. At the time it only had one spear and a lot of old wood around the trunk. The nursery tried to tell me it is a Majestic but it cant be because the trunk is furry- similar to a Triangle or Redneck. The trunk is almost triangular too. New growth is now showing and it needs to be released from its pot.
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Good Palm Nursery Near Santa Cruz, CA
by Jim in Los Altos- 4 replies
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I've got a new client in the Santa Cruz area that wants lots of palms in her new landscape and since I'm more accustomed to doing landscapes here in the Bay Area, I'm not very familiar with nurseries south of here. Can anyone suggest a good source of small, medium, and large palms of different varieties anywhere in that vicinity? Thanks
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Please give me your input!! :drool: She's very white trunk? Bases is about 8-9 " Deep red emerging new leafs and the trunk is splitting.....she's going to be a two trucker? If you know this palm and it's owner you rock!! This thread is about thought! clark
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Mystery Dypsis
by Urban Rainforest- 37 replies
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I recieved this palm many years ago as Dypsis Decipiens (red stem). Many people have looked at it including some Dypsis experts and nobody knew what it was but the general consensus was that it is NOT D. Decipiens. So what is it? I personally think it looks a lot like the palm Jeff Searle posted awhile back that he was calling the true Ambositrae. Jeff, if you could post that pic again it would be much appreciated as I could'nt find it in the archives. Anyhows this palm has a totally white crownshaft and fronds that twist and recurve all the way to the ground like a Butia. The leaflets are narrow but very stiff and sometimes overlapping. At times the new spear is bright r…
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Excitement in the Palm Garden!!
by kylecawazafla- 20 replies
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Here is my freeze "report". The freeze damage distribution leaned towards a wide range of temperatures within a single three-walled courtyard. Syagrus romanzaffiana showed some damage, while unscathed Wodyetia bifurcata were less than 20 yards away. The campus reported only one night below freeze at 29.6 F which lasted for 6 hours. The two other nights on either side of January 21st were 35 F and 33 F. I guess even Gainesville, FL is an urban heat island, since surrounding areas of Gainesville slipped to 20 F!! Here is a before (5/2/08) and after (Today! 1/26/09) of the Wodyetia bifurcata. Totally undamaged! (in reverse order)
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Palmettos dying in Palmetto.
by cfkingfish- 10 replies
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I went to beautiful Palmetto yesterday to visit Lucinda, and she pointed out there were dying Palmettos in the area. This is in Manatee County, one of the places designated by the state as having the new virus. This was one I found in the middle of town, but I saw a few others.
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Toasted......
by cfkingfish- 1 follower
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Here are some pictures near work where the burn was bad. This is on Burnt Store Road in South Charlotte/North Lee County. The first picture is D. lutescens, and the second are Adonidias, Pandanus, and others. It seems as long as you were in an urbanized area the bad burn stayed away. Here is a friend's D. lutescens hedge in Nokomis, only a mile from the water, but an open area. Here is my neighbor's house, he had gotten a number of common plants from me. As you can see nothing was burned.
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Acrocomia aculeata
by Lucinda- 5 replies
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My son collected 27 of these seeds last week from a botanical garden in Grenada. The seeds have an extremely hard shell that I don't think even a sledge hammer could crack and info so far says they could take a year or more to germinate! Has anyone tried them? Any tips to speed them up? ?? I have a heat mat available but sure would hate to keep that going for a year! Thanks for suggestions. Lucinda M.
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Ice!
by tjwalters- 12 replies
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A couple weeks ago we hit -0.9°F and some of the Trachies looked a bit toasted. Last night we had a pretty major ice storm an I couldn't get up the street or back into the driveway, even in 4-wheel drive. We're still getting a bit of freezing rain - I would much prefer snow. Here's what some of the palms look like now. I'm not sure the Trachies will make it. Trachycarpus fortunei 'Nainital' Trachycarpus fortunei Sabal minor (and a few Trachies) Fatsia japonica (not a palm, but palmate leaves )
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We spent a bunch of time talking about red-fruited Canary Island Date Palms being a possible canariensis x dactylifera hybrid. So the obvious exciting mix would be the theophrastii x canariensis, or vice versa. It seems like this would be the most likely candidate for wet/cold hardy champion in the Phoenix genus. Anybody try one of these?
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I was asked to post this by Dr. Michael Lorek of Germany (now visiting Florida) who came to visit me today, to tour my garden and also Highlands Hammock State Park. Although Michael is a medical doctor, he has a profound interest in palms, especially the sabal genus. He was interested to see Sabal etonia growing in habitat, and my property is habitat as I must have 50 or so S. etonia growing on it, hence I invited him to come visit. Michael asked me were he could possibly view some Sabal miamiensis growing in the ground. I was wondering if any of you south Florida guys/gals could tell me so I could email Michael the location. Are there any at Fairchild? Michael will…
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Palm Seedlings Growing Over Winter
by joe_OC- 4 replies
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Here are my babies that I am growing in my sun room: Group Shot (Counter Clockwise) Moratia Cerifera, Cyphophoenix Elegans, Dypsis Morojejyi (madfox), Kentiopsis Magnifica: Moratia Cerifera Close up Cyphophoenix Elegans Close up Dypsis Morojejyi (madfox) Close up - Note red already showing in base of emergent leaf
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Advice on new seeds! Please
by plantapalm- 5 replies
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I just opened a package a friend sent me with a few varieties of seeds. 1 set of seeds, the Normanbya normanbyi 3 out of 4 had begun to spout. The tips on 2 seemed to be dark and 1 looks broken. What should I do with these to get them healthy. Plant them, bag them in sphagnum moss, or perlite? Should I apply anything to the tips before they go in? Thanks for any help.
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Which palms to plant small, and which to plant Large
by DoomsDave- 2 replies
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Howdyall: I had a minor epiphany today when I saw how lush and lovely my otherwise tender Dictyosperma looked, in spite of the cold weather we've been having. So far, no spots. By this time last year, many spots. My general rule is that smaller is better, especially for the hardier palms. On the other hand, there are many exceptions, like Howea, Hedyscepe, etc. Maybe tell me what they are. Or, shoot me a PM.
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New Year = New Palms
by joe_OC- 15 replies
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So in celebration of the Vietnamese New Year (Year of the OX), I took the day off and went and got myself a few new palms. Here are pics of a couple of them: Dypsis Onilahensis Dypsis Presoniana
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It is time to talk about spring
by _Keith- 3 replies
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The trucks are arriving at the nurseries. Even the grocery stores have pallet after pallet of mulch out front. Winter can now be described in weeks, not months. So, let's talk spring. Beginning of February is generally time to put out the spring fertilizer here. Now, I have a larger place, but I have 8 bags of 13-13-13 w/micro ready to go along with 144 Palm Spikes and 96 Citrus Spikes. Got a few bags of pelletized lime as well, but I am already late getting that out. Should have been done in December. Got a few dead things thanks to hurricanes, but just bought first replacement for one of them today. Got this really cool dwarf banana while I was there. …
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I hope to be planting about 5 Washingtonia robusta from pots. (I don't know how long they have been in the pots) They are large palms. The sizes ranging down from about 12 meters tall as I want a focussed group area from afar. Will they group together well and how for apart should I plant them. Should the roots be fairly close to get the effect I am wanting. Any tips about the planting difficulties and the initial care will be gratefully received. This is a major project as we have have to take down some large pines and I am somewhat apprehensive!. Costa Blanca Spain
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Dypsis ovobontsira AKA Dark Mealy
by surferjr- 10 replies
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Well, my GOOD SEEDS thread http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=15301 Turned out to be amazing seeds thanks to the heat wave we had last week...400+ Dypsis ovobontsira and 250+ Dypsis tokoravina aka Jurassic Park germinated in less than 2 months in the middle of winter . These we're germinated in a non heated green house with some 34F degrees evening . What was also a mind blower, the Dypsis ovobontsira is a membrane seed like Dypsis bejofo. The husk rotted off during germination and to my amazement it look very similar to the Dypsis bejofo. Jeff Marcus picture of this beauty! link below http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?sh...st=#e…