Seedlings ID Quiz

[Gileno Machado]

# 1 (a favorite at the moment)

[Gileno Machado]

# 2

[Gileno Machado]

# 3 (the favorite now...oops, did I say that before?)

[Gileno Machado]

# 4

[Gileno Machado]

# 5 (thanks Christian)

[Gileno Machado]

# 6

[Gileno Machado]

# 7 (The only surviver, out of 60 seeds !)

[Gileno Machado]

# 8 (Amazonic dream palm, thanks Don DK)

[Gileno Machado]

# 9

[Gileno Machado]

# 10

[Gileno Machado]

# 11 is the last one for today...

[Zac in NC]

Well I really have no clue on this one. I'll say 2 is an Arenga and 8 is Mauritia flexuosa...Thats MY dream Amazon palm.

Zav

[deezpalms]

#5 caryota zebrina or ophiopellis?!!!

[Gileno Machado]

Zac, # 8 is not a Mauritia, but Bob Riffle loved the species too...I guess they have one at Fairchild's glasshouse...

Sorry, no Caryotas or Arengas in this quiz either, amigos...

[deezpalms]

#7 pinanga javana?

[elHoagie]

These are too difficult Gileno!!  I have no idea on any...

By the way, how many species of palms to you have growing now?  Must be at least a couple hundred?

[cfkingfish]

#1 is M. flexuosa

#2 - Wallichia disticha

#4 - Dypsis fibrosa?

#5 - Wallichia siamensis

#9 also M. flexuosa

#10 - Drymophloeus beguinii

[Zac in NC]

Yep I now see that the writing on the 9 one is M flexuosa.

Zac

[paulgila]

#11? i'm dying of suspense

[Gileno Machado]

Christian, the Wallichia expert ! You got them both...and another point for the Mauritia # 9 too.

# 1 is not a Mauritia. Believe me, this amazing seedling is less than 3 months old !! Clue: it came from the opposite of the globe and there's a non viable seed of the same species in the picture, inside the ashtray...

You liked # 11 pohonkelapa, so did I...This seedling surprised me with variegation, and the leaf shape is nice and unusual (for me...)

Jack, I kind of lost control...I know I've tried the germination of more than 300 species now, but also many I've lost. Well, all of the seedlings are still identified (I hope). I've started trying cycads seeds lately too...wow, they're fast...btw, you're grandpa again    another blue armata down here:

[MattyB]

Love the quizes Gileno, but they are very hard.  Here's some guesses

1. Borassus or Hyphane (I get 2 guesses because it's so hard)

4. Lemurophoenix haleuxii

7. Dypsis malcomberi

10. Ptychosperma sp.

11. Geonoma sp.

[Brian]

#2 Arenga something

#5 looks just like my Wallichia siamensis, seeing the seed helps.

#10 Hydriastele microcarpa

[Trópico]

#10 Hydriastele pinangoides

[Palmy]

I think that # 2 is an Arenga australasica

[Joe palma]

Well I was going to say #1 was Euterpe edulis but then you mentioned, Gileno, that it comes from 1/2 way across the globe, so that kills that guess. Well Howea belmoreana put out multiple leafets immediatley on most seedlings, but they don't grow that fast at all. So I not sure what I'm thinking here........

#2 and 5 look like Arenga something.......

#7 Pinanga

[Joe palma]

Ooops!! missed the note on no Arengas! Ahhgggg!

[cfkingfish]

#1 is Metroxylon, possibly warburgii?

[RainForestt Robert]

#6 I. deltoidea

[Knnn]

#7 ~ Heterospathe ?

[rthink]

#1 a Salacca?

[Gileno Machado]

Well, let's see...

# 1 Metroxylon warburgii (You've been reading my posts in Bo's thread Christian !)

# 2 Wallichia disticha (Christian)

# 3 is everybody's favorite palm !!

# 4 south american flame thrower

# 5 Wallichia siamensis (Christian)

# 6 You are pretty close, Trinidad Bob, but it is not an Iriartea...

# 7 amazonic small beauty (I guess Jam99 and Kamipalms tried the seeds too, and I've sent some to RLR last year...)

# 8 is amazonic entire leaf dreampalm, I hope I can manage to grow this one...

# 9 Mauritia flexuosa (Christian)

# 10 Hydriastele pinagoides (Frank Tropico)

# 11 is from the betel gang...

Hey Matty B, what happened to the defending Champ? Do we need any help from the other Matt?

[jam99]

If my eyes (or memory) serve me well, #7 is Geonoma baculifera. Or it could be just anything out of those hundreds of seeds you sent me

[jam99]

is #6 Iriartella stenocarpa ???

[MattyB]

Hey Matty B, what happened to the defending Champ? Do we need any help from the other Matt?

I'm afraid so.  I feel that my poor showing is cause for demotion.   But anyone but Matt, please.

[Trópico]

#3 looks a little like my Cyrtostachys renda.

#11 Golden areca catechu?

[Gileno Machado]

OK folks, here are the other ID's:

# 3 Carpoxylon macrospermun

# 4 Welfia regia

# 6 Socratea exorrhiza

# 7 Geonoma maxima var. maxima

# 8 Manicaria saccifera

# 11 Areca laosensis

See, they were not so difficult to ID at all ...and I hope they don't become so difficult to grow up either  ::