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Prestoea acuminata


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I also photographed these palms at Bogota botanical garden.  Caietxa, are you sure these palms are Prestoea acuminata? i saw the sign but wasn’t sure if it was correct.  Every other time I have viewed this palms, it was solitary and very tall.  Not short and clustering with very colorful petioles and crownshafts.  Just interested in your opinion.

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21 minutes ago, Beespalms said:

I also photographed these palms at Bogota botanical garden.  Caietxa, are you sure these palms are Prestoea acuminata? i saw the sign but wasn’t sure if it was correct.  Every other time I have viewed this palms, it was solitary and very tall.  Not short and clustering with very colorful petioles and crownshafts.  Just interested in your opinion.

The solitary form is var montana.

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21 minutes ago, Beespalms said:

Eu também fotografei estas palmeiras no jardim botânico de Bogotá. Caietxa, você tem certeza que essas palmas são Prestoea acuminata? Eu vi o sinal, mas não tinha certeza se estava correto. Todas as outras vezes eu vi essas palmeiras, era solitário e muito alto. Não curto e aglomerado com pecíolos e coroas muito coloridas. Apenas interessado em sua opinião.

The indicative plate was below it , see post 1 .

Caixeta

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13 hours ago, richnorm said:

The solitary form is var montana.

Does Prestoa acuminata grow ok in NZ? They're a beautiful palm.

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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9 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Does Prestoa acuminata grow ok in NZ? They're a beautiful palm.

Yes, a slow grower but very happy.

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2 hours ago, richnorm said:

Yes, a slow grower but very happy.

Very good. Another one to add to my list then.

I germinated some Montana when I was back in Perth and they grew fine through the winter in a moist protected shade house but in summer they just went backwards and never recovered enough the next winter. I lost them all. I think I'll try the higher altitude Prestoas again.

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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The P. acuminata var. Montana are robust solitary palms. I wasn't expecting how fast and thee chunky specimens they would develop into. 

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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This seedlings of Prestoea acuminata I'm growing from seeds collected in Colombia (red suckering form) Are this not var. montana?

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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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4 hours ago, Alberto said:

This seedlings of Prestoea acuminata I'm growing from seeds collected in Colombia (red suckering form) Are this not var. montana?

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No. Not according to Rodrigo:

 

Nota. Es la especie de Prestoea más común 
en Colombia. La vaina, el pecíolo y el raquis 
de P. acuminata presentan con frecuencia 
un llamativo color morado, que es un buen 
carácter distintivo. Sin embargo, este carácter 
es variable dentro de una misma población, y 
es posible encontrar varias tonalidades entre 
el morado intenso y el verde.
Henderson y Galeano (1996) dividieron 
esta especie en tres variedades, dos de 
las cuales se encuentran en Colombia. La 
variedad más común en Colombia es la 
var. acuminata, con frutos esféricos de 
1‑1.2 cm de diámetro, que se encuentra 
en todas las zonas montañosas del país. 
La var. dasystachys comprende palmas 
más corpulentas, con infrutescencias más 
robustas, con frutos ovoides u obovoides, 
raras veces casi esféricos, de 1.5‑1.8 cm de 
diámetro, y está restringida a la Cordillera 
Oriental en Santander y Norte de Santander, 
y se extiende hasta Venezuela; estas palmas 
tienen un aspecto general tan diferente al de 
la var. acuminata, que en el pasado fueron 
tratadas como una especie diferente.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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4 hours ago, Alberto said:

 

 

Muchas gracias, Len. :-)

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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3 hours ago, Alberto said:

Muchas gracias, Len. :-)

No problemo :)  I had to cut and paste that from the PDF of his book he sent me. It's all in Spanish. 

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Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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I just read this about Prestoea acuminata:

''En la Reserva Biológica San Francis-
co, en Zamora Chinchipe, el palmito de
Castilla es la palmera más abundante con
2 602 individuos en ~1/4 de hectárea11.
Crece en altas densidades especialmente
en las quebradas, en un amplio gradiente
altitudinal (~800–1 600 m), pero es mu-
cho más común entre 1 950 y 2 000 m
de altitud11'''
 
It is present at altitudes of 800 to 1600 in the 
Reserva Biológica San Francis-
co, en Zamora Chinchipe (Equador) ,but itś more common at 1950 to 2000 m altitude.
So it prefers cooler/colder climates.

 

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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