Ravenea glauca flowering for the first time!

[yachtingone 111]

My Ravenea glauca is flowering for the first time. Can anyone tell me if it is a male or female?

Randy

A friend of mine's Livistona nitida is flowering now too...

Does any one else have a flowering L. nitida in Southern California?

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[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA 36]

Very nice Palm Randy!

[pindo 32]

beatifull !!!

will be a baby boy?

[DoomsDave 10,250]

Hmm.

I'm not familiar with the Ravenea flowers, but, if you tap it, or brush it, and powder (pollen) comes off, the flowers are male.

SOmetimes it takes a while for male flowers to get ready to shed their pollen.

Watch the bees; if they leave covered with pollen, male flowers.

[gyuseppe 584]

beatifull !

[yachtingone 111]

It's a boy

Randy

[JD in the OC 52]

Very cool Randy. Looks like it's got wet feet, I'm sure it likes its growing conditions

Definitely a male, the flowers are full of anthers (and I presume you knocked some pollen off it already). Maybe mate it with a female R. rivularis??

[pindo 32]

Warning !!!

The first flowering may be not be effective pollinators

Cheers

[yachtingone 111]

If someone near Corona, Ca has a female and wants it pollinated contact me. It has two more flower spears emerging.

Randy

[Walter John 220]

I just wanted to say how much I love this species of palm, there, I said it.

[KPL 37]

Congratulations on you baby boy, Randy. Do take care and get him a mate!

KPL

[Mike Maxson 0]

Hey Randy 

still have this palm? I am in Riverside and one of my R. Glauca is going to flower if mine is female would love some pollen I’ll share seeds if they set.