Hybrid Phoenix (reclinata x roebelenii)

[Phoenikakias]

I have potted up my young plants a couple of days ago, and from now on pot is about to remain constantly outdoors till to ground planting. Plants (at least one) while in cold frame took a look of roebelenii on steroids! But air humidity in the cold frame is higher and now plants have to cope with the lower humidity of open air. They will be fine but probably this will change to some extent their appearance. Anyway I found on this occasion a good opportunity to take some stills under natural day light, which capture their greenhouse look. Maybe in Florida with higher air humidity those hybrids would still retain this look...

[Ben in Norcal]

Nice looking plants - leaflets look soft

[Alicehunter2000]

Those look great ....Sure hope those seeds you sent germinate. Our weather has been warm in the day with cool nights. Hoping for germination when the nights warm a bit more.

[Josh-O]

I love that cross. I saw a HUGE one at lego land the other day when I took my kids there.

[Frond of Palms]

This plant appears to already have a sucker…is this true? I read from a recent post of mine in a topic regarding “when does P. reclinata begin to sucker” … that this cross is very nice looking and has an aggressive suckering tendency.

[Phoenikakias]

No, no offshoots yet. There are only four different palms in one pot. I do it exactly because of this reason. I think that if a plant with suckering habit grows alone has more resources to sucker uncontrollably. If on the other hand it antagonizes other plants, it concentrates mainly on the growth of the main stem.