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Seeding Cycad ID? - any interest in seeds?
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PalmatierMeg, in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms
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By PalmatierMeg
About 10 years ago when I was trying to replant my back yard jungle, I bought a 3g Burretiokentia hapala to plant in it. I soon realized my FL sun was way too brutal for the little guy, so I set up a makeshift shade structure for the rest of the season. I kept a number of juvenile A. cunninghamianas as backup plantings and before the next summer I strategically placed several of them around my little Burretiokentia. Fast forward 5-6 years and what I believed to be my slow growing hapala croaked. By then I accepted palm deaths as part of palm growing so I shrugged and figured the picabeens would carry on. I took a really close look at one of them and realized it looked different. Its fronds were a dark green, not picabeen lime green and all the rachises had a "twist" in the middle that tipped each frond almost perpendicular to the ground. Piccabeen fronds lie almost flat and perpendicular to the ground. This palm's crownshaft was a deep emerald green and its skinny trunk brownish-green with prominent leaf scars. Picabeen trunks are gray.
"Wait!" I said to myself. "Did my B. hapala actually survive and grow lurking among the picabeens?" Then I studied the twisted fronds and wondered, "Is this palm actually a Ravenea?"
Because years ago I planted several species of Ravenea in the jungle, including R. hildebrandtii - but no majesties. As time passed, all of them bit the dust. Or so I thought.
Can anyone tell me what this very handsome palm is?
Mystery Palm
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By Tracy
I was curious how long it takes to sprout Dypsis prestoniana seeds using the baggy method. I did the float test, cleaned a bunch of sinkers, used a little bit of hydrogen peroxide to give them a final cleaning and then put them in baggies with some moist sphagnum moss I have for mounting orchids. I'm sure someone can weigh in regarding their experience and timeline on sprouting this species. I started those baggies on 12/1/2020. This evening I did the same with about 50 Dypsis heteromorpha seeds so would be curious about others experience on timeline and yield for them as well.
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By PalmatierMeg
For sale is the total crop of seeds of an unknown dwarf Sabal minor. I germinated this palm around 2008 from a seed sent to me by a PTer I can no longer recall. Where he got it I don't know but he sent it to me as Sabal etonia. I learned years later it is actually S. minor. That makes sense to me because actual Sabal etonias never survived for me. I planted it in my Caribbean Garden in 2009. During the 12 years I have had it, it has grown painfully slowly to its current size of 2' tall x 3-4' wide. I has flowered for years but produces crops of sometimes fewer than 100 seeds. This year's seed output is <200 seeds. It is a compact grower and should be cold hardy as any other Sabal minor.
180+ Sabal minor unknown dwarf seeds = $15.00 ONE LOT ONLY
Shipping = $5.00 in padded envelope. No shipping outside the US; no shipping to HI
TOTAL = $20.00
Payment via Paypal
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Sabal minor unknown dwarf
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By PalmatierMeg
For Sale: 60+ Sabal minor Blountstown Dwarf seeds ONE LOT ONLY
I got this uber dwarf Sabal minor from Plant Delights Nursery some years back. See links below for info.
https://www.plantdelights.com/products/sabal-minor-blountstown-dwarf
This is the last of the 2020 crop of seeds from my mother palms.
60+ Sabal minor Blountstown Dwarf seeds = $12.00
Shipping = $5.00 in padded envelope. No shipping outside the US; no shipping to HI
TOTAL = $17.00
Payment via Paypal
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Sabal minor Blountstown Dwarf
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By dalmatiansoap
Looking for small quantity of Hooperiana seeds.
I'm also interested in many other Chamaedorea sp. if you have
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