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Fastest Growing Palm species


User00

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Hi all,

please give me a list of fastest growing palm trees

i need fast growing palm trees for my palm garden

we have rain forest climate 350 m Above sea level

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Agreed!

John Case

Brentwood CA

Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

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Bentinckia nicobarica, Teddy Bear palm (Dypsis leptocheilos), Roystonea oleracea, Ptychosperma sp, Adonidia and Pinanga coronata... for your climate must be right and easy to find around you.

For other species PM me I can give you more info. It depends where you live but there are good nurseries around Beruwela and one excellent in Peradeniya.

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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Aloha,

We are about 450 m above sea level. In the solitary trunk palms, our Pigafetta are rocket ships pushing up 5-6 feet per year. Euterpe are fast too. The Teddy Bears (Dypsis leptocheilos) and some of our Syagrus are also fast. Among our clumping palms, the Pinanga coronata are fast and fill up space quickly.

Lee

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Lee

Located at 1500' elevation in Kona on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii.

Average annual rainfall is about 60"; temperature around 80 degrees.

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Clinostigma samoense (warburgii) is perhaps my fastest palm. Dypsis prestoniana is also very fast for me.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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Aloha,

We are about 450 m above sea level. In the solitary trunk palms, our Pigafetta are rocket ships pushing up 5-6 feet per year. Euterpe are fast too. The Teddy Bears (Dypsis leptocheilos) and some of our Syagrus are also fast. Among our clumping palms, the Pinanga coronata are fast and fill up space quickly.

Lee

Lee,

You can say Ayubowan as I do sometimes, or Vanakam, since User00 is srilankan like me (I know I am not but I am in my heart).

The problem is that the species all you american or (worst) hawaiian friends mention are very rare or impossible to find in Sri Lanka.

For example I dream about Pigafetta!

BTW I never got the 10'000 Geonoma chocolate you send me by boat last year, they must have land somewhere else :)

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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Pigafetta spp. are the fastest among the free standing palms. Many rattans grow much faster. Calamus manan - up to 24 ft per year, Calamus caesius - up to 19 ft per year, Calamus trachycoleus - up to 17 ft per year, Calamus hainanensis - up to 12 ft per year, etc. And hundreds more rattan species whose growth rates have never been studied.

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Carpentaria acuminata, Bismarchia nobilis and Ptychosperma macarturii are my fastest on the Guatemalan coast!

 

Peter

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hot and humid, short rainy season May through October, 14* latitude, 90* longitude

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Aloha,

 

We are about 450 m above sea level. In the solitary trunk palms, our Pigafetta are rocket ships pushing up 5-6 feet per year. Euterpe are fast too. The Teddy Bears (Dypsis leptocheilos) and some of our Syagrus are also fast. Among our clumping palms, the Pinanga coronata are fast and fill up space quickly.

 

Lee

Lee,

 

You can say Ayubowan as I do sometimes, or Vanakam, since User00 is srilankan like me (I know I am not but I am in my heart).

The problem is that the species all you american or (worst) hawaiian friends mention are very rare or impossible to find in Sri Lanka.

For example I dream about Pigafetta!

 

BTW I never got the 10'000 Geonoma chocolate you send me by boat last year, they must have land somewhere else :)

Ah yes.  We have heard pirates may have captured the ship and all of those palms.  If you hear of a pirate island with 10,000 chocolate Geonoma we will know for sure. So very sorry.

Lee

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Lee

Located at 1500' elevation in Kona on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii.

Average annual rainfall is about 60"; temperature around 80 degrees.

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I might add three Dypsis species: pembana (fastest), cabadae (next), and lanceolata.

 

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Mike Merritt

Big Island of Hawaii, windward, rainy side, 740 feet (225 meters) elevation

165 inches (4,200 mm) of rain per year, 66 to 83 deg F (20 to 28 deg C) in summer, 62 to 80 deg F (16.7 to 26.7 Deg C) in winter.

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Based on what I've read on here in the past, I'd say the Piggy wins (excluding rattan palms of course).  Wish they would grow here.

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Based on what I've read on here in the past, I'd say the Piggy wins (excluding rattan palms of course).  Wish they would grow here.

scientific name of Piggy wins please, we have many climbing ratten palm. i searching young plants   

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Based on what I've read on here in the past, I'd say the Piggy wins (excluding rattan palms of course).  Wish they would grow here.

scientific name of Piggy wins please, we have many climbing ratten palm. i searching young plants   

It's Pigafetta either Pigafetta filaris or Pigafetta elata, as you can read more details on: http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Pigafetta_elata or search for Pigafetta topics on Palmtalk.

Regards,

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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Carpentaria acuminata, Bismarchia nobilis and Ptychosperma macarturii are my fastest on the Guatemalan coast!

 

Peter

+1 and this is coming from central east coast Florida location....my Bismarcks grew super fast once they became established - unfortunately I lost the two largest ones and a smaller to the Palmetto weevils.

I ended up re-planting with a Livistona saribus (FG), a huge Bottle Palm (65 gal.), and a Macrozamia moorei (7 gal.).

To be honest both large Bismarcks became a bit messy with their flower and fruiting stalks (I had both a male and female) so maybe a blessing in disguise. I always wanted a saribus too.  :)

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Speaking of fast growing palms....Livistona decipiens and Washingtonia robusta have always seemed to be fast growers around here. In fact, don't even use Washys because of how fast they grow!

 

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