A trip to JDAndersons...

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First up, my prize for the day. A nice 15 gallon Carpoxylon.

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Next a Prestoa montana in a 5 gallon which I bumped up to a 15.

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Next, the only other 5 gallon I got toady. A nice trunking Gaussia attuenata which I also bumped up to a 15 gal.

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Next an Euturpe Espiritosantos.

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Next up, 2 Alsmithia longipes

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And now on to a few Dypsis.

D. kindero

A close up of the colorful crown

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D. heteromorpha

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D. pink crownshaft or what Jerry calls "hawaiian punch"

A close up of the new frond

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And last but not least, D. species betafaka

[Jeff Searle]

Dave,

     I'm impressed!! You just bought some really nice palms. I'm glad your trying a Carpoxylon. We all talked about this palm recently on an old thread, and the more people try them, you'll then get an idea if it's going to work out or not.

     Your palm, Dypsis sp. kindero( spelled kindreo) looks like Dypsis ambositrae. I have the same plants here. And also D. sp. betafaka is going to turn out to be a nice one! Your going to wish you bought more of them, in a few years from now. I also have some of these, but I'm waiting to get them bigger, before I sell them.

Jeff

[MattyB]

I was just thinking the same thing about the Kindreositrae.

[DoomsDave]

Viva Dave!

Viva Jerry!

Oh, viva viva, etc., and I don't mean the paper towel.

Nice catches.

Keep us apprized of progress -- I know you will!

dave

[LJG]

$400? Come on. How much was all this really.

[Jim in Los Altos]

To anyone visiting southern CA, it's well worth it to go to JD Andersen Nursury. Notice the spelling AnderSEN not son. He's got a beautiful display garden up the hill from his nursery too. His palm selection is great and his prices very reasonable.

Dave, you brought home some winners. I especially like the Dypsis 'Hawaiian Punch'.

[BS Man about Palms]

I can vouch for the fact these look as good in person as they do here!!!!!

[Don Little]

Nice looking palms,  looks like your collection is already quite extensive, like to hear how they work out for you.  Where is JD Andersen located, have to go by and see it?

[deezpalms]

Thanks Don.    ::     Here ya go!!

http://www.jdandersen.com/index.html

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(Jeff Searle @ Dec. 14 2006,20:21)

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Dave,

     I'm impressed!! You just bought some really nice palms. I'm glad your trying a Carpoxylon. We all talked about this palm recently on an old thread, and the more people try them, you'll then get an idea if it's going to work out or not.

     Your palm, Dypsis sp. kindero( spelled kindreo) looks like Dypsis ambositrae. I have the same plants here. And also D. sp. betafaka is going to turn out to be a nice one! Your going to wish you bought more of them, in a few years from now. I also have some of these, but I'm waiting to get them bigger, before I sell them.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff. So when you say the D.kidreo looks like ambositrae do you mean the true abo? I have the fakie and they are deffinatly different.

Jerry ~ Sorry for the misspell of your last name and thanks again for the palms!!

[jdapalms]

Dave,

No problem, this happens all the time, I tried to access my web-site once spelling out JDAnderson.com instead of JDAndersen.com just to see where this would go and a used car dealer in Texas came up so if anyone wants to buy a used car you know where to go. I sell plants.

Jeff, I am also interested to know about Dypsis ambositrae, you mention the Dypsis kindreo pictured looks like it. Clayton mentions this somewhere in another thread that the plants with red in them turn out to be something else if I am reading this correctly.

Below is a picture someone sent me of a shaggy looking thing called Dypsis hovitra. This palm looks like it is having a hard time. Does anyone know anything about this palm. I have seedligs that came in with this name and I am hoping that they will look better once in cultivation.

Jerry

JD Andersen Nursery

[bgl]

Jerry,

Well, they sure can't look any worse! Looks like someone put that poor thing thru a shredder! Plus, it's very exposed.

Bring those seedlings over here to the rainforest, and they're bound to look great. And that name is not in POM, but I'm sure you already knew that...

Bo-Göran

On a somewhat related note, we've had just over half an inch since last night. The first "real" rain in about a week and a half.

[Jeff Searle]

To Dave and Jerry,

     These palms that are floating around under the name Dypsis sp. kindreo appears to me to be the true Dypsis ambositrae. I can't be 100% sure, but I'm pretty confident that they are.

The Dypsis sp. betafaka is really nice looking, no one knows yet what the true name is on this exciting species just now starting to come around. Maybe John D. could tell if he saw the big one planted at Alfreds place.

   And for Dypsis sp. hovitra, I have also seen this picture awhile ago. Not real impressive, but, in cultivation it could look much better I would imagine.

Ahh! The trail never ends.

Jeff

[cfkingfish]

Upon receiving seeds as Dypsis sp. "Hovitra" and comparing them to D. decipiens, the seed size, shape, and endosperm are identical. The seedlings are coming up identical - this does not mean much, but the seed descriptions do. If you look at that picture it looks like a minerally deficient D. decipiens, does it not?

[DoomsDave]

Dave:

You are sick!  Very sick!  There is only ONE cure, that is to give the palms away!

To ME!  

dave

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(Dave from So-Cal @ Dec. 17 2006,14:32)

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Dave:

You are sick!  Very sick!  There is only ONE cure, that is to give the palms away!

To ME!  

dave

ha haaa!! Uuuuummmmmm, I'm sorry but these are keeperz    :laugh:  

[tim_brissy_13]

That Euterpe is a really nice find (as are all the others).  I remember RPS having some seeds a couple of years ago, and I regret not getting any.  They were described as similar to E. edulis but with a bright yellow crownshaft.

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(tim_brissy_13 @ Dec. 17 2006,22:06)

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That Euterpe is a really nice find (as are all the others).  I remember RPS having some seeds a couple of years ago, and I regret not getting any.  They were described as similar to E. edulis but with a bright yellow crownshaft.

Hey Tim. It does look very similar to me E. edulis. From what I know it is more tropical than it's brother. Anyone in socal have any expierience with the Euterpe espirito santos?

[SubTropicRay]

I missed this post while on sick leave.  Nice score Dave.  I love the Allsmithia longipes.

[MattyB]

Dave, the only E. espiritosantensis that I've ever seen was growing in Bob Hastings garden on Dictionary Hill.  He had it in full shade and it looked just like a E. edulis to me.  It looked really good in the shade though.

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(MattyB @ Jan. 04 2007,10:14)

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Dave, the only E. espiritosantensis that I've ever seen was growing in Bob Hastings garden on Dictionary Hill.  He had it in full shade and it looked just like a E. edulis to me.  It looked really good in the shade though.

Matty, where's dictionary hill? Is it local? If so then I can put mine outside when it warms up. I've read that it is more tropical in its requirements so I have in my sunroom and it gets just morning sun right now and seems purdy happy. It sits just to the side of my Carpoxylon which also looks very happy.