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Apparently there are several palms that starts up with a beautiful red leaf... I have only one... The astonishing Geonoma deversa Post your red leaved palm...!

Dave, My wife (Lilikoilee) was recently explaining our decision to hand-clear our acre as opposed to having it bulldozed. She extolled the virtues of maintaining the "natural flow" of the land, etc. Personally, after lowering that beast down the cliff I think it's because there is clearlyinsanity running in both sides of our families. Lee

Sometimes, it's not so much about looking at your house, as looking out from it. Here's the view from my front door, looking about north-north-west. That big palm is an Archontophoenix tuckeri, planted on the very eve of the Great Freeze of 2007 (X-mas, 2006) as a dinky, ugly 7-galloner in sand of doom. It's now about 20 feet tall and people mistake it for a royal. That's an R. borenquenia on the extreme left. Not as big as tuckeri, but gaining fast. I like the view! I like it so much it's hard sometimes to get into my car and go to work. Oh, the sufferings we endure!

Agreed, that palm looks like hell, always has and always will. Bahumbug! C'mon guys. Why do you care? If you don't like, stop driving by and reading threads about it. Problem solved. My guess is that coconut has done far more to advance the palm hobby in SoCal than it has to discourage people...far more. Bashing this coconut is the only way those of us who don't live in the California coconut belt can feel good about ourselves. Personally I love this coconut and I never fail to stop by during any of our mandatory annual family pilgrimages from Riverside down to the beach. I've tracked it and taken pictures of it for the last 15 years. Google "Cloudforest Newport Coconut" to see the many discussions and pictures over the last 15 years. I So, exactly where is this California Coconut Belt? It's a spot of land that encircles the newport beach coco and is the size of a literal belt

It looks pretty happy to me Bill

Is it possible that humanity is also an uncontrollable event? Collectively? Maybe. But that train of thought sounds more like an excuse than anything else.

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Wow. Enjoy seeing everyone's red fronds! Out in the garden today and came across one more. One of our Laccospadix australasica was glowing. Mike

Jonas, Here is one of the plants I collected seed from. This species seems to be variable as I have seen them more entire leaved at this stage as well as split leaved. I.ve also noticed that some of them have new green leaves, some pink, and some almost purple. I'm not sure if this has to do with growing conditions or not. Out of all the seeds I germinated, only a few seedlings had new green leaves. The marjority of them are more red but the one I posted is the darkest of all of them. Mother plant The soil on this property varies from nice black soil in some areas, to reddish brown soil in other areas, to fill-dirt loaded with rocks (mostly around the house).

Nice new leaf color on this Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana

My double headed Dypsis fibrosa rarely cracks open two red leaves at the same time, maybe this will now be the norm. Left leaf Right leaf It's hairy twin base.

Well, not red - but I think it's close enough. Dypsis ampasindavae off the back lanai today.

My wife Lee loves all of the new red fronds so we have a few in our garden. Unfortunately she wasn't feeling well and went to bed early so I've forgotten the species she told me on at least one of these. She is our resident expert - I dig the planting holes. Blazing red Chambeyronia macrocarpa Calyptrocalyx albertisianus Calyptrocalyx - oops can't remember what she told me. Dypsis pinnatifrons Hydriastele affinis Lemurophoenix Pinanga caesia Young chambeyronia macrocarpa when they were just in the ground.

Juan, I totally agree with you...there is to much palm slang and jargon used on here, but I don't think bad habits are going to change. What most of us don't realize, much of what's said on here is open to the world wide web and our quotes are for all to see, not just us palm people. Perhaps it should be cleaned up a little bit. I've been shocked to see photographs of my palms on other web sites, and some commercial sites, and even quotations from me. Thats the reason I have a dictonary and Genera Palmarum next to me.....and I still screw up. I never won any spelling bees! Maybe a simple solution would be to have an easy to find "Jargon/palm slang" section. Part of the problem is botanical names are so hard to spell.....and pronounce. The taxonomist sure don't make it easy for us simple people, and then the names keep changing. Gosh, it took me awhile when I first got on this site to figgure out what CIDP meant. Lets face it, Queen palm is lots easier than Syagrus Romanzoffianum, and before that it was Arecastrum Romanzoffianum. That's kind of a mouth full. I always have trouble with Nannorrhops...how many n's and r's to put in there.....and I always want to add an "h".......in the wrong place. In this go, go world, I don't think we are going to change our bad habits, so maybe a glossary of palm slang would be helpfull. <----Ahh, is that one or two L's? Dick

Walt, None of my caryota's burned during the Valetine frost.I only got down to 30deg. Not to worry,I owe you a visit I'll bring you a new one just like Walmart. Might we all be in the same boat. I got my Maxima seed from RPS.They say it goes down to 20degs.,I don't think so! Jeff will posting photos of one of my Caryotas,30ft+ never been pruned.in seed babys growing under it.Took 23degs. in 95/96 and 9 freezes and 7 frosts with a low of 22degs on 1/5/01.Anyone who would like to drop by and look for themselfs feel free

I've had two in pots for the last 6 months in Santa Ana, CA (you're right down the street). They're around 5-6 feet and made it through the second half of our winter, haven't seen an entire one yet. They've also been loving the humid weather. I'll post some photos this evening. Planting them in sand is a good start. Avoid watering them during the winter as well. I believe "Steve in San Diego" has one that's made it through the last four winters.. also remeber someone posting pictures of one in Palm Springs. Allen.. Santa Ana, CA.