Kentiopsis piersoniorum

[Daryl 1,503]

I just went outside to take a photo of my young Kentiopsis piersoniorum to compare to the recent post on K.oliviformis and found this little fella enjoying my palms too!

Daryl

[paulgila 194]

what kinda snake izzat?i imagine they keep the varmint population down.

[BS Man about Palms 2,352]

Daryl, the snake is cool, but show more of the Piersoniorum, Please!

[Daryl 1,503]

Paul, just a tree snake. Bill, here is another photo...as you can see it is still a small palm...slow from seed! Hopefully it will speed up once it is fully established in the ground.

Daryl.

[el-blanco 399]

Nice tree!  I have one of these.  A bit slow but no problems throught the winter.  I have a Hedyscepe about 5 feet away and it had some burn from this last frost/freeze we had.  No problems with the Kentiopsis.

[Trópico 73]

Kentiopsis is a beautiful genus. Rather tricky to grow as I'm finding out for myself.

[Kris 1,365]

Dear Daryl  

nice stills in natural habitate    though iam not a fan of

weak looking palms or plants.still i did admire one thing ?

its your camera.the equipment is totally first class,and had

no artifacts or unnatural colouration of any kind.WOW !

and its clear that you know to operate this machine very

well.

thanks for the snake stills,

Love,

Kris  

[JakeK 12]

Very cool. I like that glaucous color very much.

[BS Man about Palms 2,352]

Thanks Daryl, looks about like mine. I'll post soon, I hope.

Bill

[BS Man about Palms 2,352]

Daryl,

Any updated photos of this?

[JD in the OC 51]

I agree with Kris.. those are some National Geographic shots Daryl!

[Daryl 1,503]

tks for the comments. This palm got flattened about 18 months ago by an animal in the middle of the night (probably a kangaroo) It ended up laying flat on the ground and I thought I'd lose it. However, after some propping up, it has made a full recovery, but is still soooo slow! I will charge up the camera and take a snap in the next day or two.

regards,

Daryl

[BS Man about Palms 2,352]

Bad news, good news, better news!

[BS Man about Palms 2,352]

Is this palm still around Daryl?

[Daryl 1,503]

Sure is Bill...it has been really slow though...probably getting over its near-death experience! Plus I think it is in too much shade these days...maybe time to dig it up and put it in a sunny spot...

[BS Man about Palms 2,352]

Great to hear Daryl... is that palm overhead now or are you laying on your back??? hahah

[Daryl 1,503]

It's about 7-8 ft tall now, but stretched as you can see by the petiole length..

[Walter John 217]

Snakes love NewCal palms. Great palm Daryl.