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Show us how colorful a palm can be going to seed.


Kevin S

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Here are a few in my garden...

Phoenix reclinata

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Archontophoenix cunninghamiana 

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Syagrus romanzoffiana

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Chamaedorea costaricana

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Parajubaea torallyi

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Chanaedorea species

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Caryota urens

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Rhopalostylis baueri

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Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

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sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

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Great subject! Palms do this so well! Nice pics, Kevin & Jim.  

I will look around the garden tomorrow, see what is showing off.  

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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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Carpentaria fruiting.... its what every local grower dreads.... I used to chop mine off before they set fruit, but now I'm too old to be climbing ladders and the trees are too tall in any case...lol !
It means an influx of fruit bats, screeching, squawking, fighting and pooping all over the house and surrounds ( wish someone would eat them....whoa, wait on... no I don't... haha )
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I have millions of Ptychosperma seeds too, but they don't last too long on the palms as they are also a sought after food source for several local bird species.
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Carpentaria seed is always a vibrant orange red. They almost glow.

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El Oasis - beach garden, distinct wet/dry season ,year round 20-38c

Las Heliconias - jungle garden ,800m elevation,150+ inches rainfall, year round 15-28c

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Med fan palm.

 

aztropic

Mesa,Arizona

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Mesa, Arizona

 

Temps between 29F and 115F each year

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Hydrastele dransfieldi, Areca macrocaylx "red" one tree produces yellow seed other produces red??

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12 hours ago, greysrigging said:

Carpentaria fruiting.... its what every local grower dreads.... I used to chop mine off before they set fruit, but now I'm too old to be climbing ladders and the trees are too tall in any case...lol !
It means an influx of fruit bats, screeching, squawking, fighting and pooping all over the house and surrounds ( wish someone would eat them....whoa, wait on... no I don't... haha )
 


I have millions of Ptychosperma seeds too, but they don't last too long on the palms as they are also a sought after food source for several local bird species.
 

Speaking of bats... it's been documented they excrete corona virus in their poop. Farmers in China who ventured into bat caves to collect the guano as crop fertilizer may have inadvertently picked up the Covid-19 that way, since the earliest cases apparently were not among shoppers at those live animal markets in Wuhan. I'm hopeful scientists will eventually figure where the risk is highest among all our wildlife-human interactions.

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A couple of Chamaedoreas (hooperiana, oblongata) in the drizzle today.

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I know, in more tropical areas Dypsis lutescens is a weed, but they make a nice screen and are although not rare, they are not common here in Southern California.  I received this one at a So Cal Palm Society meeting in a 1 gallon and it looked like it had just been potted up at the time from a band size.  I still have non-palm friends ask about the colorful yellow on this.  Perhaps I'll even be pulling up some volunteer seedlings to share with them at some point in the not too distant future.

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Arenga engleri has nice color and which has the added benefit of being very fragrant when they flower.

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Here are some more to throw into the mix.

Calyptrocalyx albertisianus

Calyptrocalyx pachystachys

Tim 

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Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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Arecal catechu 'alba'

Areca ipot

Attalea phalerata

Tim

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Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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Not much blooming colorfully for me right now but found a couple to add. 
 

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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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All these gorgeous photos are making my day! Such an excellent subject for a pictorial thread. 
 

I went hunting this morning for flowers and fruits, and here is what I found:

Areca guppyana

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Pinanga caesia 

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Loxococcus rupicola

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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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A few more...
 

Pinanga maculata 

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Several shots of Areca vestiaria 

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Hydriastele beguinii ’Obi Island’ ( with orchid)

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Areca catechu’dwarf’

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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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I'm going to cheat a little because it was an exciting find.  The base of the inflorescence sheath on a Dypsis onilahensis hybrid (unknown x).  It's the first time and was a bit difficult to get in to photograph because of an adjacent palm.   So not seeding yet, but part of the process of producing seed.

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On 4/8/2020 at 5:17 PM, Kim said:

Hydriastele beguinii ’Obi Island’ ( with orchid)

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Kim, it is hard to get better than an inflo on a palm and an orchid mounted on the trunk in bloom!  That is stupendous!  Love those big entire leaves on the Hydriastele beguinii ’Obi Island’ too!

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Dypsis carlsmithii. a favorite big boy palm, only seeded once,  a few years ago

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Boy Kim, my P. maculata flower all the time, but have not yet produced viable seed. No matter, have too much stuff anyway.

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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The Pinanga caesia brought this surprise Easter morning:

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The texture looks like very fine silk velvet. 

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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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46 minutes ago, Kim said:

The Pinanga caesia brought this surprise Easter morning:

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The texture looks like very fine silk velvet. 

Just wow!!!!

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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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