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What's the 'gem' of your palm collection now?


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10 hours ago, Jeff Searle said:

So the cornbread still ain't fully cook between the ears? Lol

Dang, a corn joke-you got me there... Jeff, you are still right about me not having any credit in the palm world. Stand tall, my friend.

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On 5/21/2009, 7:02:14, Kai said:

I'm very proud of my Dutch Cocos nucifera. For many people not that special, but for me it is...

First picture of it now and the second picture of january 2007

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Kai, how do you deal with spidermites?

Wim.

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It's very common in most palmy places but where I live, it's virtually non existant. It's a syagrus from state parana Brazil, here's a pic from last summer but its much bigger now. 

 

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6 hours ago, wimmie said:

Kai, how do you deal with spidermites?

Wim.

Hey Wim,

The 8 years that I had this Cocos I've never had a single spidermite. Nowadays I have some palms in my collection that are very susceptible to spider mites and when the problem turns up, I use many different methods to get rid of them.

A couple of different anti mite sprays, coffee spray. It's important not to use the same spray all the time because the mites build up resistance very fast. Spray in the evening when the eggs hatch is most effective.

The very best thing so far has been setting loose a batch of predatory mites on my collection. All mites are gone and have not returned after 4 or 5 months.

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Just went out in the yard this evening and took a good look at my Copernicia rigida. It's been flowering and setting seed(not many)  now for many years now, but between this species and maybe C. gigas, these are my favorites. And good news, I just recently got a good supply of seed so I hope to have these in the near future to spread around.

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19 hours ago, Jeff Searle said:

Just went out in the yard this evening and took a good look at my Copernicia rigida. It's been flowering and setting seed(not many)  now for many years now, but between this species and maybe C. gigas, these are my favorites. And good news, I just recently got a good supply of seed so I hope to have these in the near future to spread around.

Jeff

I agree with you on those two Copernicia-my favorites too.

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Tough call.  I guess my favorite right now is this Copernicia macroglossa.

 

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Back in 2009 I put up my lovely little Dypsis boiviniana. How times change. My wee palm made it about a year, two more replacements even less. Small Dypsis like that and Dypsis minuta don't seem to thrive for me.

Today my showcase palm is my largest Sabal palmetto Lisa, which is flowering for the first time (photos in another thread). It is also boldly placed and visible from the street. It is truly a unique palm.

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Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Seems kinda cheesy, considering how common they are, but my gem is my Veitchia arecina.  I only recently got to 95% certainty that I had even identified it correctly, and it seems to be one of my happiest and healthiest palms.  I picked up the seed myself from dropped fruit at my (now Ex) girlfriend's apartment in Ft Lauderdale nearly 7 years ago.  These were the very first wild gathered seeds I have ever managed to germinate.  (thought "wild" is a stretch considering they were all taken from landscape palms around the complex)  I still have 2 other pots with additional "unidentified" palms I also gathered at the time, but I'll have to let them get bigger before I figure out what they are.  

Anyway, here's my Vietchia.  Put it on my coffee table for scale (I was trying to make a container ranch post last week), but sitting on the floor it's still barely taller than I am at 6 feet.  The trunks are a nice mottled brown and getting thicker by the month.  This is a palm that has really come into its own this last year.

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"Ph'nglui mglw'napalma Funkthulhu R'Lincolnea wgah'palm fhtagn"
"In his house at Lincoln, dread Funkthulhu plants palm trees."

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8 hours ago, Funkthulhu said:

I picked up the seed myself from dropped fruit at my (now Ex) girlfriend's apartment in Ft Lauderdale nearly 7 years ago.  

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Something to remember her!!!

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We're still friends! :D:D:D 

Side note, her name is Joan and for a while I joked this was V. Joannis...

Now to figure out those other two mystery palms.

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"Ph'nglui mglw'napalma Funkthulhu R'Lincolnea wgah'palm fhtagn"
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1 hour ago, Funkthulhu said:

We're still friends! :D:D:D 

Side note, her name is Joan and for a while I joked this was V. Joannis...

 

Hmmm ... not pure coincidence !!!

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Point a gun to my head, and I'd pick Dypsis leptocheilos.

Everyone falls in love with them, when they look up.

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Lanonia dasyantha, what a great little palm. More robust and hardy than L. 'mapu' and faster growing. 

 

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Hilo, Hawaii

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On 7/13/2017, 11:28:22, Funkthulhu said:

Seems kinda cheesy, considering how common they are, but my gem is my Veitchia arecina.  I only recently got to 95% certainty that I had even identified it correctly, and it seems to be one of my happiest and healthiest palms.  I picked up the seed myself from dropped fruit at my (now Ex) girlfriend's apartment in Ft Lauderdale nearly 7 years ago.  These were the very first wild gathered seeds I have ever managed to germinate.  (thought "wild" is a stretch considering they were all taken from landscape palms around the complex)  I still have 2 other pots with additional "unidentified" palms I also gathered at the time, but I'll have to let them get bigger before I figure out what they are.  

Anyway, here's my Vietchia.  Put it on my coffee table for scale (I was trying to make a container ranch post last week), but sitting on the floor it's still barely taller than I am at 6 feet.  The trunks are a nice mottled brown and getting thicker by the month.  This is a palm that has really come into its own this last year.

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Not cheesy at all! We have these palms all over our landscaping in Naples, and I can't get enough of them :wub: I am currently looking for ripe seeds or seedlings, but they're mostly in high-traffic locations. They're a lovely species! Well done on yours! They're beauties!

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Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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8 hours ago, realarch said:

Lanonia dasyantha, what a great little palm. More robust and hardy than L. 'mapu' and faster growing. 

 

Tim

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This is on my 2017 Floribunda wishlist! Placing order soon. Can't wait! :wub:

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Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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My wee baby Sabinaria magnifica is my most treasured palm. :wub: Other than that, I'm really enjoying my Pinanga coronata 'Kuhlii'/'Blunt Leaf' plants and my Areca vestiaria 'Red'/'Maroon', all of which have really taken off this year.

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Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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17 hours ago, JubaeaMan138 said:

Definetly my most recent addition 

Copernicia baileyana 

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YAASSS!! Always a pleasure to see a C. baileyana (and falaensis :hmm::wub:). 

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Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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Well grown Copernicia are such spectacular palms. Pretty much in heaven here seeing the different species at the last IPS Miami biennial.

Tim

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Hilo, Hawaii

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Right out the front door is my C. baileyana, from Katherine@creekside on this forum.  One some days it is my favorite, I love the colorful petioles.  Planted as a 7 gallon in summer 2011, its starting to "get the grow on", pushing out 7-9 leaves a year.  I want another one of these and a couple copernicia magroglossa for my "savannah" in the front yard.

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Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

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We will see how mine does it is already a huge plant roughly 6 foot tall. I hear they are marginal out here I know they love the heat which is no problem for me during summer months of 100 degrees plus for me . Real problem will be winter last year I got about 30 f so I may have to protect it a little . I've had it planted for a month or so now and has already pushed 3 fronds 

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I have a love/hate relationship with this sort of topic.

I love to see everyone's choices and photos! Thank you all so much.

I hate trying to pick one of mine as I have trouble narrowing it down. So today I decided I was going to decide while at the computer and then refuse to change my mind amongst them, no matter how hard each one with new leaves or flowers or more rare yelled, "pick me!"

It was again very very tough and I almost caved, but with all my will power my first choice is my Licuala cordata

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with runner up to the larger L. orbicularis which is above the L. cordata in the following photo.

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Tomorrow who knows what I would say?

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On 21/7/2017 20:18:01, Pal Meir said:

Definitely my rarest species, now extinct in its habitat in Bahia/Brazil: Syagrus itapebiensis = Lytocaryum itapebiense

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Impressive ! 

Is there any program for reintroducing the species in habitat ?
Do botanic gardens grow seedling like you do?

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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3 hours ago, doranakandawatta said:

Impressive ! 

Is there any program for reintroducing the species in habitat ?
Do botanic gardens grow seedling like you do?

You have to ask @caixeta; he knows it better. The habitat is reported to be burnt down for cattle. :rant: 

Maybe this is the only place where L itapebiense is still surviving:

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/48954-lytocaryum-itapebiensis/

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My photos at flickr: flickr.com/photos/palmeir/albums

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My gem can be this one:

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great hopes with this species !

 

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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On 06/07/2017 09:52:09, alohas said:

It's very common in most palmy places but where I live, it's virtually non existant. It's a syagrus from state parana Brazil, here's a pic from last summer but its much bigger now. 

 

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Wow it looks healthy. Paraná is my state so I´m curious where the seed came from ?

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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On 20/07/2017 03:42:29, realarch said:

Lanonia dasyantha, what a great little palm. More robust and hardy than L. 'mapu' and faster growing. 

 

Tim

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Really nice. I have them also, a little younger, and don´t show so much mottling

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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9 hours ago, doranakandawatta said:

Impressive ! 

Is there any program for reintroducing the species in habitat ?
Do botanic gardens grow seedling like you do?

A few palms were found in a little remnant of forest from a fazenda in Itapebi.  Fortunately the species is reproduced by the thousands lately and it deserves to be reintroduced, in a forest of a park in same habitat. 

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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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I feel all my seed grown palms are gems, but specially the seeds I was involved since the beginning, like this Butia eriospatha x Jubaea......but also de Phoenix rupicola and the Parajubaea sunkhas that are flowering.......and the Dypsis decipiens... and.......

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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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3 hours ago, Alberto said:

Really nice. I have them also, a little younger, and don´t show so much mottling

Alberto, I've read on this board, several times now, that the key to enhanced mottling is to never fertilize them. 

I have fertilized lightly in the past and really didn't notice any change in the habit, but now I only mulch them.

I have noticed though, when I've acquired them in the 4" growers pot, they are solid green with no mottling maybe because 

they have received regular feedings to promote growth and vigor for sale.

Tim

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Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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2 minutes ago, realarch said:

 

I have noticed though, when I've acquired them in the 4" growers pot, they are solid green with no mottling maybe because 

they have received regular feedings to promote growth and vigor for sale.

Tim

So there is hope for mine to look like yours.... :rolleyes:

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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My silver Mazari palm (Nannorrhops) would be for me. I am not sure if this is the form of Mazari palm that goes by Nannorrhops ritchieana sp. 'Silver' or the Nannorrhops arabica.  The grower insisted it is the silver form of ritchieana; however, many others have said they believe it to be the 'arabica'. I would like to know definitively one day as the cultural requirements of the two differ somewhat.  

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Boy, looking through this thread, there are some nice specimens!!! It would take forever to comment on all of them, but the photos are appreciated. 

Good growing!

Tim

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Hilo, Hawaii

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On 23/07/2017 à, Alberto said:

Wow it looks healthy. Paraná is my state so I´m curious where the seed came from ?

Indeed it is, and it's growing much faster than I expected. This winter temps went down to - 7°c and I protected it with frost cloth, virtually no damage. As for the provenance of the seeds sorry but I don't know, it was sold as coming from this state without further detail. 

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My favorite in the ground is my Areca catechu dwarf.

IMG_3957.thumb.JPG.2363ce4bab9853ec039b3But my newest little guys are a close second...Sabinaria magnifica

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1 hour ago, sur4z said:

My favorite in the ground is my Areca catechu dwarf.

IMG_3957.thumb.JPG.2363ce4bab9853ec039b3But my newest little guys are a close second...Sabinaria magnifica

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Your newest little guys look like brothers of mine. looking forward to seeing their growth !
 

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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Yes, I am jealous... I look forward to seeing yours grow up and maybe having one here. Congratulations and thanks for the beautiful photos.

Cindy Adair

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I guess the gem of my "collection" has to be the 11 month old Golden Malayan dwarf.

 

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5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

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