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Thought I would take a few photos today of my Pinanga maculata and copelandii. These two are very similar palms. From what I'm told, the only botanical difference is a spiral shape to the inflorescence. copelandii is on the left copelandii maculata showing some stilt roots I know a whole bunch of you have maculatas and or copelandiis, so post your photos! I'm curious to see if anyone has a larger one with stilt roots.

Kris, it is good to see you posting again !

Moar malaiana!

Pinanga malaiana

Pinanga sp. blue seed (left) and sp. thai mottled (right)

More copelandii

Pinanga copelandii

Pinanga maculata

Pinanga curranii stem

Pinanga curanii

Closeup of crown 9 months ago:

Yeah except not so good in the desert heat where many phoenix shine.... And there are lots of deserts out there... And killing a butia is pretty easy, just overhead water the bud in the cool weather, even in florida. Tom, I am not so sure about the overhead water in cool weather. Here in Louisiana we always have wet winters, very wet winters, but Butia seem to do fine. I am no expert, but this is my observation. I am talking about irrigation, not rain. My neighbor sprinkled my butia and killed it, spear pull, dead... with just natural rain they do great in florida, they seem to prefer no irrigation. In the AZ desert they were much more prone to burning in the sun than all the phoenix and all but 2 livistonas(austrailis and chinensis). My az butia did flower, but I was constantly trying to keep it from being burned and it was a bit yellow all the time. All this and it never saw western sun. any phx species grew like a weed there regardless of heat/sun.

Kris: It will do great there.

Nice work and a beautiful specimen.

I think that you shoud have used rather another drainig material for Brahea armata instead of rocks. On my Brahea armata I have used a thick layer of gravel up to the surface and little plant looked like it loved it from the the very first moment it got outplanted. Not that you would have avoided failure by necessity, just a better start...

Aloha Philippe, If you let us come to visit you can steal all of the palms you want from our garden. In the meantime would you please identify them. Lee

My dad once told me that if you don't have anything good to say don't say anything at all. I think it especially rude to make one of these comments in some one elses thread on that "common" palm. If you are fortunate to have many choices and be able to grow palms that you prefer, count yourself lucky and resist the temptation to trash someone elses treasure. Its no better than telling somebody you don't like their car or house...

Kookaburra on the clothes line