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Ptychosperma elegans/ cyphophoenix elegans?

Dimimelbourne

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Hey all! Hope you’re well.
I recently acquired this beautiful young palm from a nursery. They saw that it was declining in their care and so they palmed it off to me ;-) 

They weren’t sure what it was but said it was likely a ptychosperma elegans or a cyphophoenix elegans and I’m curious to see what you think it is.

I’m also curious about the yellow and brown blotches on its leaves. It came from a tropical climate (FNQ) to a temperate one (Melbourne) in our spring which has been quite cold lately… could it be from that? It’s now started getting warm here so will it heal up ok with proper care?

 I am moving to a tropical climate in 6 weeks so I just need it to hang on until then really…

thanks in advance 

 

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Pretty sure they are Burretiokentia hapala mate, nice score! I’ve actually got one doing ok in my garden here but you won’t have to worry at all going to the tropics. Yeah the brown blotching is typical of palms which have come down from QLD to our challenging climate, it will be fine now with our weather for the next 6 weeks if you keep it we’ll watered. 
 

Now you have to tell me where in Melbourne there is a nursery selling B hapala? Not common around here at all. 

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15 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Pretty sure they are Burretiokentia hapala mate, nice score! I’ve actually got one doing ok in my garden here but you won’t have to worry at all going to the tropics. Yeah the brown blotching is typical of palms which have come down from QLD to our challenging climate, it will be fine now with our weather for the next 6 weeks if you keep it we’ll watered. 
 

Now you have to tell me where in Melbourne there is a nursery selling B hapala? Not common around here at all. 

Hey Tim, check out Botanicah in South Yarra, ask for Harris as he got in some palms and he has them in a seperate function space than his usual nursery! 

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17 hours ago, Palmarum said:

Could it be a Burretiokentia?

Hmm time to do some research I guess I’ve never heard of these

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36 minutes ago, Dimimelbourne said:
18 hours ago, Palmarum said:

Could it be a Burretiokentia?

Hmm time to do some research I guess I’ve never heard of these

That’s a real find!

If you can, give it a semi shaded spot in the ground and keep it well watered. 
 

If you don’t have a place in the ground give it a bigger pot and keep it watered and semi  shaded.

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14 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

If you can, give it a semi shaded spot in the ground and keep it well watered. 

Expanding on Dave's suggestion, am sun and pm shade or even filtered light most of the day will allow it to look its best.  What it will least appreciate is too much sun in the afternoons and tend to have more leaf burn in my experience.  Perhaps in a higher humidity climate they might handle more sun but I don't know.  It will be a great species to add to your garden.

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25 minutes ago, Tracy said:

Expanding on Dave's suggestion, am sun and pm shade or even filtered light most of the day will allow it to look its best.  What it will least appreciate is too much sun in the afternoons and tend to have more leaf burn in my experience.  Perhaps in a higher humidity climate they might handle more sun but I don't know.  It will be a great species to add to your garden.

I’d further suggest that this applies to all or almost all of the other Burretiokentias.

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It’s definitely an interesting looking palm. I can’t seem to find a whole lot of Information on them online. I’ll be renting for a few more years so big pot in a semi shaded location it is. I am moving to Cairns in a month with most of my palms so if it hang on until then I’m sure it’ll be very happy.

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