Chamaerhops humilis “Cerifera” Quandry.

[TonyDFW]

Chamaerhops humilis “Cerifera” Quandry. 

We are growing several of these blue Mediterranean palms in our garden in Dallas. The individual plants range from a white blue, very grey blue, to a bluish green. 

One plant produced leaves that are light blue in color and average about 16 segments attached to a petiole. This type of leave is circled in yellow. This same plant produced leaves where the segments are twice as long and only occur in a group of four segments to a petiole. This leaf is circled in red. 

 

Have you ever seen a Chamaerhops humilis with these types of leaves?

[kinzyjr]

Mine here in Florida is more like the one you circled in yellow.  The leaflets circled in red I haven't noticed before on other plants.

[Neil C]

Very strange but cool. Nothing about Chamaerops really surprises me anymore.

Regards Neil 

[Steve in Florida]

Are the longer leaves coming from offshoots?

[TonyDFW]

The 4 segment leaves are coming out of a sucker. Most of the suckers produce the normal segment leaves. 

[Steve in Florida]

I've grown a few oddballs with elongated newly splitting leaves coming from offshoots.  As they mature and gain more leaflets they should become more proportinate.