Trachy ID

[cfkingfish]

There is a bit of a story behind this plant - I found it run over at a friend's New Year's party and on the ground...bareroot. I drove it home, potted it up, and it's looking great. It doesnt seem to look like a Waggie, I was thinking T. martianus? It grows very well in the Florida summer, so I was thinking it was not a T. fortunei. Any ideas?

[M@ximus]

Ciao  Christian!

I  have  many  Traky  here in  Rome,

and  your  seems  to  be  a  Fortunei

is  a  variable  palm,  and  one can be   different  from  another

ciao  M@x

[Paul S]

I agree, a fortunei.  It is at the waggy end of the scale in the way those leaves recurve, but larger than a waggy would be at that size.  T. martianus has many more, smaller leaflets that are not cut back so far into the leaf and a fuzzy furry type stuff (sorry, got a bit technical there) on the petioles.

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Christian…yeh, have to agree with Max and Paul, it’s probably a fortunei…I have had small waggies and they are pretty distinctive, but the rest are always a toss up…even the adult ‘Forts’ show allot of variability in their crowns.

These are two I had in my greenhouse when I lived in MD.

Rusty

[JD in the OC]

Are the bottoms of the leaves whitish?  Or is that just camera flash?

If so, you could have a Trachy latisectus.  I just saw one at Jerry Andersen's nursery that size.

JD

[Zac in NC]

Justin- I have both takil and fortunei with white-ish undersides. I think it is just fortunei. All latisectus I have seen resemble Livistona chinensis more than other Trachies.

Zac