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Two Surprises today


Cindy Adair

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I have been busy trying to eradicate as much of the horrible vine, pica pica (Mucuna pruriens) from my land as possible. This afternoon I called it quits for today and went for a stroll. Two surprises greeted me.

The first was on my largest Licuala mattanensis 'mapu'. I almost missed it.

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Then I looked more closely at my only Licuala sallehana.

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I'll throw in a few more photos from the same walk for good measure. All in the ground post hurricane Maria so less than three years ago. In the tropics plants grow fast.

The palms are Licuala cordata, Calyptrocalyx laxiflorus and Chamaedorea geonomiformis.

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15 hours ago, Cindy Adair said:

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Leaflets and flowers look like a Masdevallia.  Is it a native or something you mounted on this tree?

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33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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Hi Tracy! That’s a Specklinia (pleurothallis) picta that I bought from an orchid collector in 2011.

 

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Wow!  Someone is doing something right.  Well done!

 

BTW, is that a cordata or did you take your pinking shears to some hapless Sabal?

So many species,

so little time.

Coconut Creek, Florida

Zone 10b (Zone 11 except for once evey 10 or 20 years)

Last Freeze: 2011,50 Miles North of Fairchilds

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On 11/16/2020 at 3:35 PM, John hovancsek said:

More, more. .please..

Thanks. After watching the recent IPS webinar on palms of New Guinea I am beginning a list of what I have from there. 

 

On 11/16/2020 at 6:36 PM, Jerry@TreeZoo said:

Wow!  Someone is doing something right.  Well done!

 

BTW, is that a cordata or did you take your pinking shears to some hapless Sabal?

Thanks! Funny. I have great hopes for the 2 tiny seedling cordatas in my new shade house. The one pictured is my only one of any size. I did read recently a detailed description of using pinking shears to more realistically trim the leaves of a gesneriad in preparation for judging. Apparently this is legal by show rules.

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Thanks DCA Palm Fan.

Off topic chatter:

Aroids seem quite popular at the moment and I know there are many of us who use them as palm accents.

I am glad I grabbed some before the big price increases. 

Gesneriads are cheaper and grow like crazy here too. I use whatever makes sense in areas where ferns are not enough to fight with invasive vines and grasses.

I also love calatheas!

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So gorgeous! Posts like this have me just ITCHING to get a house I actually own so I can start getting most of these palms out of their pots and into the dirt! 

Very inspiring. :) 

Former South Florida resident living in the Greater Orlando Area, zone 9b.

Constantly wishing I could still grow zone 10 palms worry-free, but also trying to appease my strange fixation with Washingtonias. 

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wonderful collection and how beautiful they grow when you can actually leave them alone for a while in such a perfect habitat. You are lucky.

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On 11/19/2020 at 9:31 AM, redant said:

Maybe you could have a side business sell the beans.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3942911/  

Thanks for the link! When I was trying to find information about how to eradicate this painful pest all I really found were articles praising it.

I would require big bucks to collect the seeds, as when they are ripe is when the pods are the most dangerous.

I am sure some vines will escape me and anyone interested in collecting them (and crazy/masochistic enough to do it) is welcome to any on my farm.

Cindy Adair

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Thanks so much for all the kind comments!


I don’t regret my leap into the tropics with space to grow anything I want and living expenses so low.

Don’t rule out western PR if you are wanting your own palm paradise.

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