Best Butia Shots - Put em' here

[_Keith]

How about nothing but Butia shots in this thread. Show us what you got or what you have seen. T

This is actually 2 Butia, with the primary nearing 20 feet.

[FRITO]

nice thread idea.

heres some local shots

butia on right, CIDP on left

[Kris]

Dear Keith  

thanks for the lovely topic,since iam of the opnion that butia's do not put out huge trunks,so i am not a fan of it.but some memebers have pointed out i have not seem much of these babies...so i hope i will be proved wrong about the trunk opnion ? through this visual treat of the butia palms...

Dear Luke  

thanks for those lovely stills...

thanks & love,

Kris  

And by the way kindly post their names too,for guys like me to learn as to what Sp.is in discussion_Please.

[Eric in Orlando]

Here is an old one growing next to the Arid Garden here at Leu Gardens;

and one in the Palm Garden, this is the form that used to be known as Butia capitata var. nehrlingiana as it bears rounded fruit that are bright red;

[Eric in Orlando]

Heres a couple from around town.

A multi-headed specimen

a 2-headed specimen

a "lazy" specimen

and a big one decorated for Christmas

[_Keith]

(krisachar @ Mar. 25 2008,00:51)

QUOTE

Dear Keith  

thanks for the lovely topic,since iam of the opnion that butia's do not put out huge trunks,so i am not a fan of it.but some memebers have pointed out i have not seem much of these babies...so i hope i will be proved wrong about the trunk opnion ? through this visual treat of the butia palms...

Dear Luke  

thanks for those lovely stills...

thanks & love,

Kris  

And by the way kindly post their names too,for guys like me to learn as to what Sp.is in discussion_Please.

Chris,

Check out the trunk on this Butia, on the right.

[edbrown_3]

heres a few around Jax

B eriospathea

[edbrown_3]

B archeri in Minas Gerais

[edbrown_3]

Local Butia with erect leaves.

[NBTX11]

Ed, that looks like a hybrid Butia to me.

[freakypalmguy]

Here is a couple

Lots of fur on this baby

[ruskinPalms]

Butia is not planted nearly enough around here. I can only think of one in my neighborhood and it really is not cared for and looks ratty.  As my zone 10 and 11 palms die off over the years, I am sure I will plant a few Butia in my yard. Cool pics everyone, keep them coming!

[soro]

Here is one growing in Napier, New Zealand

[M@ximus]

Butia  capitata

M@x

[M@ximus]

Butia  Yatay

M@x

[M@ximus]

Butia  capitata  " spiralis"

M@x

[soro]

... and some Butia (yatay?) growing in Tauranga

[Kris]

(syersj @ Mar. 25 2008,20:28)

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Ed, that looks like a hybrid Butia to me.

yeah,it looks like that to me too ! it has more of jubea trait in it..?

And i like it !  

[Exotic Life]

Hi,

Nice treath.. i would too check my photo history for Butia shots from france... if i got them i'm going to post them here.

Right now here is a shot from last year of my own Butia capitata.

[fiji jim]

Nice to see!

I love Butias also and have tried some here in Zone 11 climate with varying results.

In partial shade I have one that is a few years from seed now and growing slowly at about two feet.

This summer one the same age died after totally browning in a location with full sun and good drainage while some B.yatay are doing well in pots with regular watering.

So who has some pics of well grown Butia in the tropics and how much sun and water do they receive?

[sapida]

here a 12 years old Butia capitata in the night

sapida

zone 8b in France

[Gaston in Argentina]

Not because it was taken by me but i think this is the best Butia

picture.-

I have taken this pic with my old optical Cannon A1 with a huge zoom in the N.E.

Argentina, near to some jesuits ruins.-

[Gaston in Argentina]

And another from the same place and picture and seed trip,

i think it was in 2001 year.-

And not sure yet if this is B. paraguayensis or B. yatay

Best regards.

Gaston

[maesy]

Here is a nice one on isola madre,lago maggiore.

That is an island with a beautiful botanical garden on the lake of lugano at the border of switzerland to italy.

Marcel

[Christian_G]

Hi Keith

here are some Butia palms:

B. capitata, probably the oldest and tallest in southern Switzerland

B. capitata, planted in a cemetery in Porto, Portugal

Another B. capitata in southern Switzerland

This is a Butia x (Phoenix dactylifera x Dypsis sp.) ::

From far it looked like a Phoenix, but the seeds identified it as Butia sp.; I was told that the leaves look also a little bit 'dypsish'...

Ciao,

Christian

[Christian_G]

Two more pictures...

'Silver' Butia sp. (private garden, southern Switzerland)

B. capitata with big and very tasty fruits (southern France)

[Alicehunter2000]

I've got to get in on this thread............need to get some new pictures. B. capita is practically native around these parts (and there are some real beauties).

[Al in Kona]

I think finding a Butia in Hawaii is almost like trying to find a needle in a haystack.  Not sure as to just why this is the case.  I've always liked the Butia look, so when I found a very tiny seedling of Butia archeri I purchased it and after it grew in its container a bit I then planted it in the ground.  It is still small but looking quite well considering the fact that it is not considered a fast grower.  Here is a pic I took several months ago.

[iwan]

San Diego (Catamaran Hotel)

Butia yatay (Dick Douglas garden)

[Kris]

Dear Keith  

you have started lots of intreasting topic but this one shurely blew me of the ground.....!  

and all those who have contributed to this tread,my heart felt thanks to you.since one cannot travel to all these locations to see these buties.this is what i call immedieate satisfication & contenment..

love,

Kris  

But after seenig the hybrids of jubea x butia or butia X jubea...their trunk size is what iam attracted to.i know that palm conassires will not appriciate my taste for the jamboo's...but everybody have some weakness towards something...!  :laugh:

[aussiearoids]

I asked about this palm back when I first joined this board . I am pretty certain its a Butia .

It is growing just a few k's south of Tully.

Not bad for the wet tropics .. the owners have still not given it a trim , and now they have been bypassed by the new flood proofed highway .

There is a nice Bismarckia in the same front yard .

[PalmGuyWC]

Al,

Thanks for posting a picture of your B. archeri. I had mentioned yours in another thread, and was wondering if anyone had one near or at blooming size. Yours is the largest I've seen in cultivation. Do you have a rough estimate how old it might be?

Dick

[PalmGuyWC]

Al,

Thanks for posting a picture of your B. archeri. I had mentioned yours in another thread, and was wondering if anyone had one near or at blooming size. Yours is the largest I've seen in cultivation. Do you have a rough estimate how old it might be?

Ed, I'm green with envy over your B. eriospatha. That's a very nice shot showing the tomentose spathes. I thought I had a B. eriospatha but it turned out to be something else.

Dick

[Kai]

This is my newly planted capitata...

Hope it works!

[sonoranfans]

I had no idea these palms could be so varied and so beautiful, hope mine looks like some of the ones posted here someday.  Dont see very many around here, only in private yards, and typically not in front of the house, but hidden in the back yard.  Here is one of my butia capitata in the arizona desert, already throwing spears this spring.

[DoomsDave]

Here is Gary Wood's Butealiscious capitata . . . .

Almost fractured my skull from swooning onto a rock . . . .

It's got about 7 feet (3.5 m) of clear trunk.

Scream obscenities

[_Keith]

(Dave from So-Cal @ Mar. 27 2008,21:27)

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Here is Gary Wood's Butealiscious capitata . . . .

Almost fractured my skull from swooning onto a rock . . . .

It's got about 7 feet (3.5 m) of clear trunk.

Scream obscenities

Yep, that one is beautiful.  

One day I will take a proper picture of the one I started this thread with. That picture does not do it justice at all.  I cannot describe how gorgeous that palm really is, and big.  It is totally responsible for me getting interested in palms.

[DoomsDave]

Keith, I'm quivering like jelly at the thought . . . . .

blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-

blub-blub-blub-blub-etc

[Kris]

Dear Dave  

your still in post no.36 is fentastic ! Good heavens....i do not get easily carried away by all plant species,that would include the butia's...but your still of that buety got my lower jaw open involentrely(Automatically) ! in the still itself its so charming how beautiful it would appear to the eye in 3 dimensions_W0W !

thanks & love,

Kris  

By the way are all B.capitata generacially silver form or does it have lots of vatiations like green,blue & silver ?  ???

[fiji jim]

Nice to see all these pics as I love the look of a Butia.

Good to see that one from Michael in north Queensland.

But I would like to know of others grown in the tropics.

Are there any in Hawaii ?

How about others in Zone 10 + 11 ?

Jim