Chamaedorea 'Douglas Delight' radicalis x oreophila

[PalmatierMeg]

Shortly after PTer Dick Douglas passed away some time ago, Plant Delights had a one time offering of this cold hardy hybrid Chamaedorea. Apparently PDN got it to survive in NC. I never met Dick Douglas but I knew he was greatly honored on PT for his awesome garden in No Cal so I decided to buy one of their offering

https://www.plantdelights.com/products/chamaedorea-douglas-delight

Nearly 10 years later, it resembles a non-trunking C. radicals. This year it is flowering. Is it male?

It sits next to an unknown clumping Chamaedorea that is putting out a mess of seeds. I took photos of it for ID because if my Douglas Delight is male, just perhaps it pollinated my mystery Cham. Wouldn't that be cool?

Anyway, I took the following photos of my hybrid radicals x oreophila. I've grown radicalis but have never laid eyes on oreophila

Chamaedorea 'Douglas Delight' aka C. radicalis x C. oreophila

[Patrick]

Nice plant! I saw that one on Plant Delights way back when. I looks like a male to me, based on the similarities to my C radicalis that I have. I have several of both genders.

 

I always enjoyed going to Dicks. It was a very nice garden and the chats we had over a few drinks were always enjoyable.

[PalmatierMeg]

8 minutes ago, Patrick said:

Nice plant! I saw that one on Plant Delights way back when. I looks like a male to me, based on the similarities to my C radicalis that I have. I have several of both genders.

 

I always enjoyed going to Dicks. It was a very nice garden and the chats we had over a few drinks were always enjoyable.

Thanks for the confirmation, Patrick. Sorry I never met Dick. The photos of his palms were amazing. I figured my little hybrid Cham would always be celibate but maybe there's hope.

[Tracy]

25 minutes ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Chamaedorea 'Douglas Delight' aka C. radicalis x C. oreophila

It appears as though this palm has spent all it's time tillering sideways rather than forming a trunk and growing upward.  It will be interesting to see what happens when the palm has made it's way to the edge of the pot, as it will have only a couple of choices at that point.  Either it can "grow up", pun intended, or it will have to start tillering sideways around the inner circumference of the pot. 

[Phoenikakias]

T b h, it reminds me strongly of a cross I have between a trunking and a non trunking radicalis. Almost identical shapecand size of leaves and leaflets. The feature in which your plant differs from mine is the creeping trunk, which is present only in a dwarf radicalis specimen in my garden.

Edited June 10, 2022 by Phoenikakias

[Phoenikakias]

21 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

T b h, it reminds me strongly of a cross I have between a trunking and a non trunking radicalis. Almost identical shapecand size of leaves and leaflets. The feature in which your plant differs from mine is the creeping trunk, which is present only in a dwarf radicalis specimen in my garden.

In foreground a group of trunkless specimens and in background a group of crosses trunkless x trunking

Close up of former group

Close up of latter group

A trunkless specimen with creeping habit

[Patrick]

On 6/9/2022 at 2:02 PM, Tracy said:

It appears as though this palm has spent all it's time tillering sideways rather than forming a trunk and growing upward.  It will be interesting to see what happens when the palm has made it's way to the edge of the pot, as it will have only a couple of choices at that point.  Either it can "grow up", pun intended, or it will have to start tillering sideways around the inner circumference of the pot. 

I have some radicalis that I have really abused, still in the pots after all these years. Mine just keep pushing sideways... Sorry for the spoiler.