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“Chamaedora radicalis seedling “trunking form” producing flower?
by Frond of Palms- 1 reply
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Hello all, Back in February of this year I responded and purchased six seedlings from an ad listed in Palm Exchange by IPS member Darold Petty for Chamaedora radicalis “trunking form”. When they arrived (in very good condition) I potted them up into 1 gallon containers and let them grow in partial shade under a Queen Palm in my back garden. About seven weeks (or so) ago an old boot from the Queen fell to the ground and damage one of the seedling only bending over a few petioles…I decided to move the damaged one along with two others to a safer location and planted out the rest. A couple of weeks ago I notice what I thought was the new emerging spear (from the…
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Finally! An old tattered frond sloughed off the Dypsis hovomantsina. Mr. D. carlsmith dropped a frond a few weeks ago and made a display but now it has colored up with a red ring. Ooo là là! Nice contrast with the yellow! Elsewhere, in the spiny forest, Verschaffeltia splendida reveals a demure new leaf. I am enjoying these new purchases on the lanai as a spring arrangement together with the nest found on the ground. Soon they will take their chances in the garden. …and a couple of orchids that popped open recently. Post your spring colors here!
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A friend gave me this knife a while back and it’s been great!
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“Dypsis arenarium” flowering?
by quaman58- 25 replies
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I’ve purchased a number of palms under this name over the years. In general, they’ve always looked a lot D. lutecsens, but much more colorful especially when young. I’ve always been a bit skeptical after looking at some online images of palms that are supposedly arenarium. Anyway , there’s been plenty of discussion about this palm over the years. I’ve also posted a picture of this particular palm purchased as such. It is rather pretty, it’s husky, it’s solitary, and it’s pretty fast. And now it’s starting to flower. Is there anything I should be looking at when attempting to differentiate between it and lutecsens? Or is it just officially a colorful version of lutecsens? …
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“Forbidden” Easter Sunday schlep around the ‘hood
by DoomsDave- 16 replies
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This thread was inspired by @Jimbean’s thread from six days ago. Getting a bit stir crazy so I walked out the front door and took a walk Saw a weed nasturtium Then a Chamadorea radicalis with its infructescense bagged to keep seeds safe And baby Archontophoenix maximas And a Pritchardtia I tried to kill by beheading it Ripening seeds on a Chambeyronia
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“Heckawee” seedlings
by DoomsDave- 1 follower
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As in “what the Heck are we?” Any thoughts?
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“Hekawe” palms- what the heck are we?
by DoomsDave- 6 replies
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I got a bunch of seeds from palm talkers and lost the ID. Maybe someone can tell me what that are. seed
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«Overpruning» Butias and Bismarcks
by Palmfarmer- 1 follower
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My Bismarckia and Butia are roughly 6ft and the fronds are growing into my fence. Is aggresive pruning for lets say 1 year bad for these species? I approximent the fronds will be above the fence next year so then I could stop doing that.
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I was overseas for a month and returned to a pleasant surprise !
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(A?)synchronization of male and female specimens
by Phoenikakias- 6 replies
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I have observed following event in several occasions. Namely the male plant blooms at an earlier time than the female and by the time the female inflorescence seems receptive, the male plant has already stopped producing new inflorescences and the already existing seem/are desiccated. Nevertheless female plant does set fruits with viable seeds. This observation applies on Chamaedorea (glaucifolia, oblongata), Guihaia argyrata and Phoenix spp. I do not know how to explain it. In current case I have two dacties a male and female growing together. The male has produced two inflorescences, which now have entered the decline stage. The female plant is pushing right now the inf…
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(Another) Palm ID requested...
by jfrye01@live.com- 1 follower
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This is a picture inside the "Jungle" exhibit (based on the Amazon) at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita. Since I was a little kid, I have always wondered what these palms are. I have asked, but none of the zookeepers seem to know...lol. They look like Livistona to me, but I'm honestly not sure.
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(Butia eriospartha x Microspadix F1) X Allagoptera arenaria
by Bananengeknl- 1 follower
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Butia eriospartha X microspadix F1 female flowers pollinated with male Allagoptera arenaria pollen. First time, let’s see if it works.
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(Butia X Jubaea) X Syagrus flowering, (X Jubutyagrus?) 1 2
by Eric in Orlando- 1 follower
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A couple of the specimens of (Butia odorata X Jubaea chilensis) X Syagrus romanzoffiana here at Leu Gardens have started flowering recently. I got a couple photos yesterday in the rainstorm. These were acquired from Tim Hopper in 2010. This one was planted out in April 2012 from a 3gal. pot. I have heard the name X Jubutyagrus everettii applied to this hybrid but I don't thing it has ever been formally described.
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(Butia x jubea) x s. schizophylla
by floridaPalmMan- 1 follower
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I was fortunate enough to grab some mule palms from Moultrie Palms in St. Augustine a few weeks back. Since I knew a bit about palms (thanks to palmtalk), Frank & Elaine showed my wife and I around the rest of the grounds and the work he was doing. He had his mules all over but in the special section of his squirrel cage, he had butia x jubeas as well as a dozen of these butia x jubea x schizophylla in which he let us take one of them. If I recall correctly, he used the seeds from a butia x jubea and pollinated them with a syagrus schizophylla. I could be wrong about the hybridization process but I think that was what he said. He also made sure I under…
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(BxP)xSyagrus accidental cross?
by Patrick- 7 replies
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I was tooling around the yard over the weekend and was taking a look at my Butia xParajubea: Upon further inspection, it looks like I have a few potentially viable seeds: The only thing I have around that could possibly cross with these would be my queen palms which are overhead; well, everywhere actually. Are these BxP crosses like the mules where the seeds are sterile? Just wondering if I might actually have some viable seed on my hands. I counted perhaps 5 or 6 of these in different parts of the palm. Thanks for the info!
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(BxS) x S
by Alicehunter2000- 0 replies
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Does anyone have a picture or info on this Mule backcross?
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(HELP) Flowering Caryota Gigas
by Palmgrover- 10 replies
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4 years ago I planted a 5 gallon C. gigas in my front yard ,it was maybe 48" tall. I was told I had maybe 15 to 20 years before it flowered and fruited before I had to remove it once it died... In the last 4 years it has grown very well for me here in So Cal and didn't even skip a beat in the freeze of 07. Well the other day I noticed what I thought was a new leaf that was starting to come out crocked. I didn't give it much thought till I woke up this morning and almost fell over. What I thought was a new leaf was really an Inflorescence that had popped out of it's spathe in the darkness of night. Now to give you an idea of the size of my Caryota ,it's now abou…
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I bought this around a week ago. It came in a 10 inch nursery pot with really saturated soil, so I decided to un-pot it and check out the roots. There was no root rot but the root ball was maybe 5in diameter at best. WAY too small for the nursery pot they put it in. I cut their soil mix 50/50 with a really nice cactus mix, and put it in a 5.5 inch terra cotta pot. I watered it to get it settled, and haven't touched it since. It's been in a bright south facing window, but I don't think it has gotten any direct sun. Any idea why the fronds have started to shrivel up? I put a wooden skewer in the pot yesterday and it was a little damp when I pulled it out…
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... assuming of course that we have not seen the seeds from which each plant originates, in other words are there any distinctive vegetative features fir each sp? I had grown once a sunkha from seed, which had stiffer and more horizontally spreading leaflets than a tvm (at least seeds obtained as such). The difference was very obvious, but I keep reading that juveniles of both spp are practically indistinguishable from each other. Btw this is my lone surviving Parajubaea grown from seed obtained as tvm. What do you think, tvm, tvt or sunkha?
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I posted this by mistake in the freeze damage sub-forum, so I will try again. Let's see some pictures of this cross. I know some of you probably have plants older than mine. Purchased in October 2006 as a liner, potted up to a 2g tree pot and in the ground about a month ago.
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(Jubea x Butia Odorata) x Butia Eriospatha
by Peter G- 16 replies
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Bought these seeds from RPS a few years ago, had 2 come up, gave one to a fellow PalmTalker. Planted my one in full sun in Spring and has quite happily grown through our Summer. Anyone else growing this hybrid?
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(Not so) guerilla planting opportunity
by Hammer- 18 replies
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Howdy, I have a really great chance to add some palms and other landscaping to city property. I spoke with the City Manager yesterday who gave me the verbal go ahead to do some landscaping on the hill that adjoins my back yard. He said as long as I plant things that will NOT require the city to maintain them, I am good to go. I will post pics of the hill tomorrow. The area is infested with gophers, gets hammered by the sun, is pretty dry for the most part and gets water spray from sprinklers that are city owned. Would love a Bizzie or two...but, the gophers are probably not going to cooperate with that selection. I would love to add a grove of Ki…
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(Rather common) Licula ID
by stygiana- 10 replies
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Hi everybody, I bought this small Licuala in a local nursery about a year ago at a bargain price, as it was virtually leafless and quite dry. It's been very happy ever since. I first thought it was a grandis, but my wife keeps on saying it's a peltata sumawongii (aka elegans), and with the last new leaf, I must say that she might be right. But I'm still not quite sure (or maybe I'm too "macho macho" to admit that she was right!). Here it is i our "nursery" about which I must say that it's probably one of the worst spots in the property (rats, dens shade, falling avocadoes and mangoes, etc) and we hardly can spend more than 30 mn per week. Fortunately, this spot is very …
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(Re-?)Introducing Palms
by Palmsbro- 7 replies
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What kind of palms do you want to see naturalized or reintroduced to any place? I would like to see Sabal palmetto fully re-introduced to the barrier islands of North Carolina all the way north to the border with Virginia. Roystonea regia would be great in the wild in the Southern Tampa Bay Area such as St. Pete and Western Manatee County.
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(Syagrus X Parajubaea) ..
by Butiagrus- 2 replies
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Hello ! I would like to known if this hybrid (Syagrus X Parajubaea) or (Parajubaea X Syagrus) exist ? I know that we can hybid them with Butia like (Butia X Parajubaea) or like (Butia X Syagrus). So it's most probably that we can obtain (Syagrus X Parajubaea) or (Parajubaea X Syagrus)? It may be harder to pollinate Syagrus or Parajubaea (like a mother in this case) but I think it's possible genetically JBG