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Name your favorite palm. (Just 1)


GottmitAlex

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Have it or not, name your favorite palm. If you are of the " I can't name only one, I have several favorites" type, please refrain.

Im curious.

Thank you. I think you all know my favorite. Which is yours?

 

 

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5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

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My wife...Cocos Nucifera without a doubt.  For me it's a tossup between some of the monster palms (Fallaensis, Caryota Gigas, Attalea Cohune, Bismarck, Corypha, Tahina, etc.) and cute and small palms like Hyophorbes (I have 19 in the ground) and Chambeyronia Macrocarpa.  But if I had to pick one favorite it would absolutely be Beccariophoenix Alfredii for beautiful shape, big size, fairly good growth rate and cold hardiness.

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Paschalococos disperta. My grove of them looks great. The only downside is all the volunteers that pop up everywhere as well as the seeds that I’m always slipping on. 

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"it's not dead it's sleeping"

Santee ca, zone10a/9b

18 miles from the ocean

avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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Alex,

Same as you of course, the Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) in all its MANY different varieties!

John

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27 minutes ago, Stevetoad said:

Paschalococos disperta. My grove of them looks great. The only downside is all the volunteers that pop up everywhere as well as the seeds that I’m always slipping on. 

Impressive! Show us your photos. :yay:

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
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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1 hour ago, Ryagra said:

Cyrtostachys renda 

If I  to choose just one, I’d have to agree. 

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Just for today, I choose Licuala peltata v. sumawongii. Maybe you can understand the appeal? They will take a very very long time to get overhead. These were planted about 9 years ago and are just a bit taller than me, leaves the size of my small round dining table, 4 ft. diameter.

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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
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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24 minutes ago, Kim said:

Impressive! Show us your photos. :yay:

Sorry but once they start trunking they put out an electronic field that disables cameras. It’s a shame but clearly that’s the reason you don’t see any photos of them. 

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"it's not dead it's sleeping"

Santee ca, zone10a/9b

18 miles from the ocean

avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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Very hard to pick just one but I'm going to go with one that I can grow here...So far that's probably the Hedyscepe. Slow growing but gotta love those curved leaves.

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2 hours ago, Merlyn2220 said:

Fallaensis, Caryota Gigas, Attalea Cohune, Bismarck, Corypha, Tahina, etc.)

I love all those palms too :drool:for the same reasons being stately. Will add Jubaea Chilensis and ill pick Sabal Causiarum #1 cause its a bulletproof palm that i can grow here. My wifes fav would be Bizzies for sure !!!

A palm that may be my fav some day but we just dont really know how its gonna turn out is Jubaea x Syagrus 

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T J 

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6 minutes ago, OC2Texaspalmlvr said:

I love all those palms too :drool:for the same reasons being stately. Will add Jubaea Chilensis and ill pick Sabal Causiarum #1 cause its a bulletproof palm that i can grow here. My wifes fav would be Bizzies for sure !!!

A palm that may be my fav some day but we just dont really know how its gonna turn out is Jubaea x Syagrus 

You guys are cheating 

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Bismarckia nobilis.

ALL palms catch my eye but there’s just something special about Bizzies. Their large stature and white/blue fronds just give them a mythical, Dr. Seuss-like quality, at least to me, someone who lives in area mostly devoid of palms.

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Since I am only allowed to name one...:angry:.....

I am going to name something of course that I can (and am) growing.

Foxy Lady.

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4 minutes ago, Merlyn2220 said:

There's no cheating in palms! :yay:

@Jeff985 Come on tell us your fav even in a roundabout way haha 

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T J 

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Areca catechu dwarf. They grow well for me in pots so can be moved or protected.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Cocos weddelliana is in the top 20 for me certainly (a recent addition to my personal list).

Others at the top for me include Clinostigma ponapense and Cyrtostachys (other than renda).  Also Dransfieldia.

 

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5 hours ago, OC2Texaspalmlvr said:

@Jeff985 Come on tell us your fav even in a roundabout way haha 

If I had to choose just one it would probably be Cyrtostachys renda. But that’s a really tough call. There are so many that would be a close second. Cocos, Adonidia, Roystonea, foxtails... Forcing me to choose just one is cruel. 

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Royestonea regia if I had to choose

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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Hard to choose just one but I would say any Pritchardia species.

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Lived in Cape Coral, Miami, Orlando and St. Petersburg Florida.

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If I was only allowed to plant one kind of palm on my property, coconut. Nothing else screams welcome to the tropics then a coco. 

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Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

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Of the ones I'm growing, Dypsis leptocheilos. Or Bismarckia nobilis. Or Phoenix canariensis. If you forced me to pick one to save of the three, it would be the majestic CIDP. 

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2 hours ago, redant said:

If I was only allowed to plant one kind of palm on my property, coconut. Nothing else screams welcome to the tropics then a coco. 

I have to agree. Coconuts are a common and boring choice, but yeah, I'd go with a coconut too. lol 

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Westchase | 9b 10a  ◆  Nokomis | 10a  ◆  St. Petersburg | 10a 10b 

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A Huge Brahea armata/ Blue Hesper with tons of Blue and Silver in it. 

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My one and only favorite...

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...but I got to admitt extremely closely followed by...

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the probably most beautiful palm in the world: Clinostigma samoense (photo © @realarch) and

I am so glad to have three of them in my garden  - but still a bit too young to be presented.

 

best regards from Okinawa

Lars

 

 

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