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A view of a park in Lisbon.

That is odd indeed! Mine did the same thing but the two fronds were under a dense Oak canopy. Weird!!! Let's hope that your African Oil palm decides to have ALL the fronds do that next year!!

Brahea sp. Clara

Here is a picture from 21 April 2006, it's planted in Spring 2004 but doesn't grow very well the first 2 years. Looks like it's has started with growing from spring 2006. Here is the picture from 10 December 2009, unbelievble how fast this palm is in only 3 years. It's now fighting for his live in our second horrible winter in a row. Robbin

A little story to share... I just returned from Key West yesterday where I do my palm sale every year. My first year there was 16 years ago and this is where I met Andre, who is now 25 years old. He was only 9 years old that year and wandered into my sale asking about different palms and holding his Betrock Palm Book I might add. He ended up buying a few small palms and has been to my sale every year since. Andre and his family have become very good friends of ours. Andre's little typical yard (by Key West standards) is one of the nicest collections and manicured yards I have ever seen. And I have toured many private gardens. His collection include Johannesteijsmannia altifrons, Areca macrocalyx, different Calyptrocalyx spp. Licuala spp. and many others. His good friend Danny, who is 16 lives two doors down. He's been a serious palm collector for 2 years now and has 200 species, of which most are in the ground. To this day, it's been apparant that Andre's influence has rubbed off and onto Danny.When ever I get a chance to go down to Key West, I always make it a point to visit these two young friends and visit their gardens. For those of you that have visited down there, Danny's father owns the famous Green Parrot Bar, a couple of streets from Duval St.

I found this older pic that a friend had sent me from his travels in Mexico. Sorry, I can't be more specific as to where it was taken. But he did confirm that the greener were B. brandegeei, less certain if the grayer were B. armata or not. Sorry it's not of higher res, but...

Here's my contribution to the red frond thread, not as exciting as most of the other red leafers, but it's a neat looking palm anyways. Livistona rigida

try to get ahold of David I think it is, at Green Images in Christmas - been awhile since I was there but he had lots of these from 3g to 15g sizes, uses Hobe Sound as seed source, or did at one time. Us locals often refer to them as "white" Saw Palmettos, the glaucous hue much more pronounced on these than anywhere else in Fl. Another good source (but much farther drive) is Perkins in LaBelle. They have container and specimen sized plants available. You can transplant these, I've done it many times but there are several tricks to the trade I'm a bit reluctant to post on a mssg board. Most are already aware of one of them - cauterizing cut roots, this helps but does not ensure total success. Here's mine