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Hydriastele dransfieldii Subtle color to new leaf Verschaffeltia splendida Calyptrocalyx pachystachys mottled seedling begins to brighten.

Good afternoon all! Hope everyone is well. Spending sometime cruising the backyard and figured I’d post the progress on this one.

Borassus Madagascarensis & Copernicia Baileyana

next is a view out my 12' sliding glass door in the back which opens up to the lanai. This area has lots of overhead crownshafted palms. Dypsis pembana, dypsys lutecene, chambyeronia macrocarpa, kentiopsis oliviformis, 3 species of achrontophoenix(max, ales, myola) are visible. Ishot away from sun, but there are more palms including royal, beccariophoenix alfredii to the right in th epic(into the sun so I didnt take a pic). The next pic is from the master BR looking up at the jungle canopy, this canopy looks amazing on a full moon night and the shadows cast on the ground are incredibly palmy on near full moon nights. I would need a better lens and tripod for a night time pic, I mahy look into that. The last photo is also out the master but looking toward the lanai on the right. the fence is 7' tall, royal is over 35' and again a wide angle lens crop frame 17 mm=full frame 22mm) squashed the height to get it in as it too close for a normal 35mm view.

Every window in my house has a palmy view since palms surround the house. First two pics are out kitchen nook with sabal causiarum and beccariophoenix/borassus ethiopum. These are all wide angle to get the height in as much as possible.

So the walk continues first day of no rain in a week.

I have grown 3 C. Humilis cerifera in Dallas. They looks vary between the them. One specimen produces 2 distinct leaves. A traditional armed leaf and an unarmed mutated one. The mutated leaf only produces 4 segments which are much longer than the traditional leaf. The mutants are found throughout the plant. Have you ever heard anything about this type of condition?

Here’s the crowns and trunk bases on my cluster. They’re about 15 feet tall now. A friend gave them to me all clustered in a 10 gallon tu. I could have separated them but I didn’t.

Here’s my living room window on a fine Corona Viral evening The big palm is a Parajubaea cocoides. Show us your palmy window pictures!

Not suppose to leave the compound so did a little walk around.

I acquired two of these back in May of 2017 thanks to @Ken Johnson Just wanted to show how great they look. Flanking a Pritchardia Pacifica. Only planted 3 months before hurricane Irma but did quite well. One was tilted a bit and slowed it's growth but is just fine. The bottom 2 photos show this one. It was the taller of the 2 at the time. They were planted as trunking specimens. I would say their growth rate is slow to moderate. Look closely and you can see how close the rings on the trunk are compared to the older rings. Planted in mostly full sun on the north side of my house. Just some extra Winter shade as the sun is more southerly. Not fast growing by any means but are a very attractive, different palm than the usual. Faster than the Chambeyronia palm. I am enjoying their height right where they are, so glad they're not too fast growing. I fertilize 2x a year and as you can see, haven't mulched them recently. Regular 2x per week waterings and Summer rainy season. Easy palm to grow. Enjoy the pics and show yours if you got them.

Saw this on a FB group devoted to our old neighborhood

Update pics

Regia do have black spots on the crown shafts R. borinquena do not have the spots and are a nice lime green color and there fronds are a bit shorter hard to tell from your pic but that's what I think it could be. Make sure you plant it low and bury those roots it will really fatten up that way and it's going to be thirsty so give it plenty to drink . I did this with a R.regia that had been in a pot too long and the trunk fattened up alot. Anyway 1st pic R. Borinquena 2nd pic r regia with spots hope this helps aloha.

Here you go various Windows throughout the house.this is a fun post it made me clean some windows wife was stoked

I dont think it is a cross. The seeds that come from a dwarf will be true but not all of them will be true dwarfs but they will show some sign of dwarfism.. I hope that helps

Renda Hybrid

Cindy Adair's recent topic about a visit to Bornea in 2014 inspired me to go into my photos of an IPS post-tour of the palms of Cuba in 2014. One of the highlights for me was some of the spectacular native Cuban Copernicias in habitat. I'll post some of those photos again because it looks American palm lovers won't be visiting there anytime soon. Holguin, 5/31/14 - Our overloaded chartered plane landed at the Holguin airport where we were met by our made-in-China bus (the US & Cuba have no official trade relations). We set off to look for palms. Copernicia sp Copernicia yarey Moa 6/1/14 - an almost unearthly landscape full of strange, noxious plants. I contracted painful lesions on my hands that plagued me the rest of the trip. But the palms were worth it Copernicia rigida C. rigida and my husband Tim. I returned with C. rigida as my favorite Copernicia. They remind me of my dad's old time shaving brushes. Me gazing at acres of C. rigidas. Our tour group had to walk past an abandoned hobo camp on our way to see these awesome palms. Had the authorities of this Workers' Paradise chased the inhabitants away before our visit? Copernicia Valley - Our bus pulled over to the side of the road and let us out to view a miles-long valley of Copernicias: rigida, yarey, sp and countless hybrids

Since I was blocking off the original "greenway" around the corner, I decided to expand the agave bed to make space for the super-fast-growing "Bluebell Giants" that went from a 5 inch seedling to almost 4 feet in diameter in one year. This was just an excuse of course... I got bored of red lava rock so I made a "stream" and border with salt-and-pepper granite and built a raised area in the back with leftover quartz from when they built the house 30+ years ago. The new bed is an equal mix of sand/topsoil/perlite. At some point I'm going over to Pebble Junction to get some fist-to-head sized boulders to put in there, but here's the overview shot before I finished planting: The burn pile is a bunch of stump chunks from the roadway and path, and digging a monster stump out of the front yard (see future post below). Here's the new NW plantings: And next to the stream I've added a "Mad Cow," a "Crazy Horse," a regular Bovicornuta and am looking for a "Crazy Cowlick" to fill out the Insane Cow Posse area: On the new "point" the Bluebell Giants takes the center with some Weberi and a "tall and narrow" unusual Salmiana from one of the guys at Agaveville. Back up in the raised area is a Wercklei, a Valenciana, a small Ferocactus Latispinus "Devil's Tongue" and a big 6' tall triple of Cereus Repandus/Peruvianus that I picked up from a local FB sales group. I'll get a photo of them later along with the 3 bamboos I planted behind the bed.

For a joyous and exciting Coronavirus Saturday night, here's some more progress photos from my yard! On the East side I had a wide greenway of grass all the way around the corner, and I decided to rework that whole side and fill it in with thick-leaved plants to help block the sound. I decided to change the "road" to the well so it went onto the driveway near the garage. On the right side are a couple of Arenga Engleri from ChuckG, a few smaller agaves at the end of the drive, a triple of Livistona Chinensis, Bismarckia and Livistona Mariae. Back in the center next to the philodendrons is a Corypha from PT member Carver, and on the edge of the road behind the Engleri are a few monster Ice Cream Bananas in a row. On the left side is a slightly sunburnt Attalea Cohune (also from Carver) and an Encephalartos Ferox that seems to be adapting to the full sun spot: Continuing down the path I filled in the middle that I'd laid out in January, and my wife really, really, really wanted a walking path. So she got a walking path between an Encephalartos Hildebrandtii and a Whitelockii, both from ChuckG. The Hildebrandtii is flushing now and the Whitelockii is really thinking about it! Just behind the potted Agave Americana is a Bambusa Lako and green crinum lilies. And here's the view from the other side. You can see two of the bamboo plantings on the left. Just behind the pile of topsoil is a Dendrocalamus Latifrons that's just put up 3 new shoots. A couple of feet to the left of the Sylvestris is a Dendrocalamus Maroochy next to the Viburnum. To the right side is a new sea grapes and a cluster of white bird of paradise. I'll have to figure out something to put in the corner arc near the Sylvestris.

Another view, through the heliconia

Planted as a 1-gallon good grower for California almost twice the speed of the chamberonia hookerii on the left

Las Tunas Botanical Garden, 6/1/14 Copernicia macroglossa Camaguey area, 6/3/14 - Copernicia jackpot Bulls and Copernicias Copernicia baileyana Me among the baileyana Copernicia cowellii - another of my wanna haves Me admiring a Copernicia cowellii

The big problem is that most of these palms are located out in the hinterlands and our group of Americans and Australians was watched and babysat constantly by "guides/commissars" who made sure it stopped only when and where they wanted and that we had minimal to no contact with Cuban citizens. I doubt any American would be allowed to drive and travel at will into the countryside. Europeans can travel around and stay at private B&Bs but we had to stay/eat at gov't approved/run restaurants or hotels. The guides made sure we spent each morning on the road, at which time the head commissar would regale use with propaganda, I mean "history", of US oppression of Cuba going back to the mid-1800s, Including how the US Navy blew up its Battleship Maine in order to start the Spanish-American War. Actually, neither side blew up the Maine. The explosion was a tragic accident.

The view from my TV room.

Conan the cat loves the palms too!

A rainy afternoon view from the kitchen

Hybrid latan palm shows insane color formation

I love the wide long leaflets on these palms. These should be more widespread in 9b+ florida. I have 3 large overhead from Ken Johnson in 2011 early spring 2011 and one planted as 3 gallon seedling 6 months earlier. The seedling was fried in dec 2010, but the spear as intact. The KJ palms were slow at first and had 1-3' trunk. They kind of sat there and developed roots for 2 years while putting out ~2 leaves/yr at first. Here is the smallest one of kens delivery of (3), I'd say its ~25' overall, 11-12' trunk and its seeding for the second time. The fruits are red when ripe but these are just starting to form. This palms has about 11-12 clear trunk. I have two other Ken Johnson KO's that are larger and in the upper jungle canopy making them tough to photobraph. Id estimate they are a bit under 30' tall overall but it tough them being that high up and no clear distant view. When i look over the house from the street they appear to be 3-4' taller than the one pictured here. These have 13-15' clear trunk. Last is the one I planted from a seedling, it was in a high drainage spot at first, after a few years the little one started to grow. These past two years have been good years for the little one which only sees 3-4 hrs of direct sun. the spears on these palms are huge compared to my 3 species of mature archies(max,alex,myola). the wide long leaves catch peoples eye. Its the palm the uninitiated visitors ask about most "what is that"? First is the little one planted as a seedling. second the beginning of fruits, third is my 3rd largest that started with 1' clear trunk. Sorry about the bending trunk, ha to use a wide angle to get it all in.. If you look just to the left of the KO in the forefront you can see the crownshafts and ringed trunks of the other 2 lrger ones.

Nothing like your jungle Dave but here is a shot through the window of from left to right: A. Cunninghamiana, Chambeyronia Macrocarpa. A Maxima with a Roystonea Regia creeping in the background. All of my palms are still thrashed from the winter Santa Anna’s and waiting for this cold spell to get over and back to spring.

A vestiaria is always up there.

I agree with John - it's not a hybrid but a unique variation or mutation of an Areca catechu. It takes awhile to know if you have one even if your seedling comes from a true dwarf parent.

2010 was a cold Winter and some palms were lost throughout town. I think people take this cold to some extreme level...this was lost, all Christmas palms wiped out, coconuts...not true at all. Christmas palms took a hit but probably 90% plus came back just fine. Very few coconuts died in my area. Some yes but those were not exactly healthy to begin with. Mostly what dies was not well taken care of. I live in Cape Coral Florida. I lost no palms and had over 60 species...hydriastele, pinanga k., christmas palms, chambeyronia, cocos species, king palms, ptychospermas, veitchia, bottle, spindle, I can go on. Lost not one. All 10B palms. Damage yes. Death no. Go with a tall variety coconut palm. The dwarfs are a bit more cold sensitive. Although your nighttime lows are so chilly not sure if it can work for you.

Love them, but the quarry is shut down apparently and the train car coming in with new inventory only had the small ones. So I took what I could get LOL.

Ahhh, yea you're right. If I have time I'll try to get better pics of it.

Would agree w/ Tracy, never hurts to try but just don't think any of them would survive here for long unless placed somewhere where they see absolutely no direct sun all summer long, say tucked between a grove of / under the canopy of large Mesquites / Indian Rosewood ( Sissoo ) and get lots of water.. Pretty sure any fronds that reach out into full sun would be nuked almost instantly..

Finally some family room views where the Pritchardia hillebrandii looms large off the deck, while my Chambeyronia houailou is the prime view looking out one of the windows in the opposite direction.

I see jungle

Uncovered today!

Yeah, i keep it on the dry side a bit in Winter. Works perfect and its pushing new leafs very quick. When the sun is shining a lot more, i will give it more water like i did before.

So, winter is over and yesterday i decided to repot my Cocos to a new container. When i broke the old container to get it out, i was impressed how long the taproot was which was only hanging in the air. (No soil) I managed to let the rootball intact when putting it in its new container.

Look forward to seeing that!

Here in Holland we have a few days with excellent weather, so Cocos (and Becarriophoenix also) is placed outside out of the wind, temperature around 33 degrees Celcius. End of the day it’s going inside again. The new leaf is coming along nicely.

There’s a new leaf coming next to the pen marking. I cranked up the brightness a bit so it’s better visible. If you could look top down, you can see it even better.

Yes, i dont over-care my Cocos, which works better in my own experience. My Beccariophoenix is also pushing a new leaf.

New picture taken 30 min. ago. The 2 visible “V-leafs” are certainly growing wider/bigger. No problems so far, even it hasn’t sun every day.

The fun part of coconuts! this one took just under a month

Well, I looked and I guess I didn't take pics of it when I first cut the pot off (my hands were full), but I DID record the entire thing, so if you care to see the entire process, here it is in two parts; just don't mind the rest of the channel being completely non-plant-related! Part 1: Part 2: ........OH! Well, that was easy.