Attalea butyracea

[mpiodi]

Hi friends,

I collected yesterday in the neighborhood some fresh seeds of Attalea butyracea.

Has anyone special experiences with the germination of this species?

Any helpful tip is welcome! Thanks

Wolfgang

[Kai]

Hi friends,

I collected yesterday in the neighborhood some fresh seeds of Attalea butyracea.

Has anyone special experiences with the germination of this species?

Any helpful tip is welcome! Thanks

Wolfgang

Hello Wolfgang,

I would clean them thoroughly from all the fruit surrounding the seeds and soak them for a few days in water. Then put them half burried on top of the germinating soil in a tupperware bowl with a lid or something like that on a warm place. Something like this:

Cheers,

Kai

[amazondk]

I threw some attalea seeds, under a palm tree and just left them and they germinated better than the ones I took care of. But, then my climate is the trees natural climate, hot and humid.

dk

[Jose Maria]

Hi Mpiodi,

I would not germinate any seeds if I lived close by an Attalea tree.

I would just dig up the "volunteers" that abound under the palmtree itself. At least that is the situation with all palms in Costa Rica, I dont collect seeds for myself, I take a shovel ....and choose ...just like in a nursery, but without paying of course!

Besides ,you win at least a year in development of the little palm.

Seeds are for sending to friends in other places that have no such palms.

[mpiodi]

sorry, an error

Edited April 21, 2009 by mpiodi

[mpiodi]

Hello Wolfgang,

I would clean them thoroughly from all the fruit surrounding the seeds and soak them for a few days in water. Then put them half burried on top of the germinating soil in a tupperware bowl with a lid or something like that on a warm place. Something like this:

Cheers,

Kai

[mpiodi]

Hi Mpiodi,

I would not germinate any seeds if I lived close by an Attalea tree.

I would just dig up the "volunteers" that abound under the palmtree itself. At least that is the situation with all palms in Costa Rica, I dont collect seeds for myself, I take a shovel ....and choose ...just like in a nursery, but without paying of course!

Besides ,you win at least a year in development of the little palm.

Seeds are for sending to friends in other places that have no such palms.

Hi, José maria, Hi Dk

This is, was I am usually doing here with Elais guineensis and Areca, which are growing everywhere like weeds.

But Attalea is a very rare palm here. I saw only some in the Botanical garden of Kisantu and here in Kinshasa only four trees on two different locations. Where I collected the seeds, there where many of them but not even only one seedling.

So, no other possibility as to try myself.

Besides, some friends asked me for seeds from here, but we have no reliable post service. It's a pity.

Kindly

Wolfgang

[Jose Maria]

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Hi, José maria, Hi Dk

This is, was I am usually doing here with Elais guineensis and Areca, which are growing everywhere like weeds.

But Attalea is a very rare palm here. I saw only some in the Botanical garden of Kisantu and here in Kinshasa only four trees on two different locations. Where I collected the seeds, there where many of them but not even only one seedling.

So, no other possibility as to try myself.

Besides, some friends asked me for seeds from here, but we have no reliable post service. It's a pity.

Kindly

Wolfgang

[mpiodi]

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Hi, José maria, Hi Dk

This is, was I am usually doing here with Elais guineensis and Areca, which are growing everywhere like weeds.

But Attalea is a very rare palm here. I saw only some in the Botanical garden of Kisantu and here in Kinshasa only four trees on two different locations. Where I collected the seeds, there where many of them but not even only one seedling.

So, no other possibility as to try myself.

Besides, some friends asked me for seeds from here, but we have no reliable post service. It's a pity.

Kindly

Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,

Here Attaleas are the largest palms, most of them are inhabited by parrots, that enjoy the safe living quarters up there.

The fruits are sometimas fed to pigs, they are rich in oil, more or less like oilpalm.

No idea how long they last to germinate.

Heat and humidity will do it.

[Trópico]

Thanks for the update! That palm, I had the fortune of seeing it growing in the wild in the Tolima department in Colombia. They were abundant. Too bad our driver didn't stop to get a closer look. The seeds, if similar to Attalea colenda, must respond very well to delidding, for a germination time of a couple of hours.

[mpiodi]

Thanks for the update! That palm, I had the fortune of seeing it growing in the wild in the Tolima department in Colombia. They were abundant. Too bad our driver didn't stop to get a closer look. The seeds, if similar to Attalea colenda, must respond very well to delidding, for a germination time of a couple of hours.

Sorry, what means "delidding". Couldn't find the word in any dictionary

[Trópico]

Is a term we coined to refer to a very successful technique to speed up germination. Here.

[Jeff in Costa Rica]

Wolfgang, thanks for the update. Glad to see them germinating! Attaleas are one of my favorite palms. I currently have a seedling growing in a pot that I found under a mature palm. I didn't think it would survive since I just yanked it out of the ground, but two years later it is still growing strong.

[mpiodi]

Is a term we coined to refer to a very successful technique to speed up germination. Here.

Many thanks for the link. I am about to try this too with my new Attalea seeds.