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I do like this little palm! Mine is flowering for the second time and no seed yet either.

This palm has lots of colorful fruit, but no label. Poor thing! Today I noticed a palm not too far away with a label that looks similar to me. Licuala kuntsleri What do you think? Close to the same size which could fit too as I would have gotten them at the same time. Thanks so much for your help!

A difficult one to capture in pictures, with them being so tall in the mid canopy blending in with the rest of the foliage, but a few recognisable pictures. With a small one I was able to get some pictures of the male flowers, and with a tap on the flower a nice dispersal of pollen. A great palm that takes all sorts of growing conditions. These ones are about 25 years old, with a height of at 6 meters. An easy palm to grow and if you can look up you get to see them.

Male chamaedorea plumosa flowers!

Here is an updated pic of the Clinostigma savoryanum at the San Diego Zoo. This pic was taken on September 2, 2025. I believe this palm is more than 25 ft, maybe closer to 30 ft tall.

Coccothrinax Clinostigma gronophyllum

I think you got lucky with that one. They start suckering when they are quite small, that one is starting to trunk. Peachy

Archontophoenix purpurea …

Indoor gardening is challenging to say the least. I used to have houseplants and it became too hard to keep them happy. Between keeping the cats away from chewing on them ( near impossible ) and keeping them clean ( dust free ) , then taking them outside for a break , it was exhausting . Put them permanently outside side , problem solved . I do spend a lot of time in my garden but it is enjoyable outdoors. I know there are some plants that will not like the indoors . The only work around for those that live in cold climates is a heated greenhouse . Even here in my palm heaven , I would have one if I had the space . I built a nice one at the old house for a fraction of what a store bought kit would cost . I remember seeing one built out of old house windows and a couple of stained glass panels , it was lovely , sort of like a quilt. Harry

Maybe difficult to make a positive ID from the photos with the lighting, but it looks pretty typical of S romanzoffiana to me. If you didn’t prompt with your thoughts I’d certainly be suggesting the ID as S romanzoffiana.

Wallichia disticha I have another in lots of shade that is larger and prettier but harder to photograph. Both have been repetitively attacked by ox rhino beetle and the pictured palm looked like a goner for awhile. When the Strategus rhino beetles dig a gallery they go through roots and then with a palm on a slope they can’t stay anchored upright very well. With wind and rain and gravity the palm shown here had to be staked and still would be vulnerable in the future, but at least no longer wobbles when I touch the stem. It really is nearly flat (distichous) but my photos don’t emphasize that.

Cmon man it’s happypalms we got lots of pollen. I do get seeds now and then so hopefully this year, but they are so tall, so I will grab the stems and bend them together and give them a good going over in the match making department.

Well said Tim. Hold onto it Richard, so you can send some down to the Southern Palm Dungeon in a few years. We promise not to torture it too much...........

From what iam reading and learning more about this palm there is only one sex available not sure which one but apparently it reproduces by rhizomes, so a rare one indeed! Richard

I thought I mentioned its demise. Unfortunately it never really took. Survived a year without growth, then the spear grew a couple of centimetres but quickly perished afterwards. I never really figured out what happened but I’m confident it wasn’t cold or heat. Moisture level seems ok when I had a look at the soil and root ball too. One of the saddest losses I’ve had. Kind of why I suggested Richard hold onto all of his cuttings. If you can grow these well multiply them!

Sancho inspecting my Trachy planting. I think he says it's in a good spot with afternoon sun so hopefully it turns into a fat chunky one instead of a hairy Washy looking one.

@hope2build nice to meet you! If you can take @Darold Petty up on his invite to see his garden. I’ve driven almost 400 miles to see his garden! Worth every millimeter…

I’ve got a feeling I read something that there’s only one sex in cultivation globally. I think the story goes that when it was collected there was confusion because it seemed like all plants were the same sex (forget which) but they were in fact all the same plant connected via underground rhizomes running for metres between stems.

That is Dicksonia antartica the Tasmanian tree fern. It does not sucker so you have a separate plant at the base. You can dig it out and move it. Try to get as many roots as possible.

More palms in the ground with some beautiful little triphylla in a group planting at the bottom of some steps in the garden, prime viewing area for a small palm. And a nice line of archontophoenix purpurea just for fun.

Such a nifty little palm from peninsular Malaysia. Been in the ground for about 10 years now from a small seedling. Blooms continuously, but never sets seed. Interesting color, bluish green with a matte sheen. A well behaved garden gem. Tim

Yeah maybe. I left it on the patio in Texas and it got lots of sun and rain. I brought it here and it became a giant kitten chew toy. I bought it from Jungle Music so it wasn't cheap. Crazy though that the trunks all just looked and felt like they'd been deflated. Now that the cats have seen me swing the cultivator and watched me bury a few of them, they're all scared of me and know to stay away from my plants now. There's literally thousands of trees they can tear up here, they can leave mine alone.

Well, an unexpected but pleasant surprise yesterday. I bought a Sago from Walmart in April 2024 for $20. It did very well last year, but then we got hit with some nasty cold and that destroyed its growth. I pruned off the dead growth sometime in February 2025, and waited. And waited. And waited some more. June arrives, still nothing. So I put it back in its original nursery pot with some old soil and and forgot about it. Yesterday, I was mowing around the shed and noticed something different about the Sago...it is finally sending out new growth! After repotting with fresh soil and a healthy watering... Also, I noticed that there are three areas where new growth is pushing out. Will these eventually form individual trunks?

I may be possible they didn’t like being inside for too long, I would rotate my indoor plants when I was gardening inside the house. And most times it was two weeks indoors then 4 weeks outside in a shaded place.

I erred on the dry side. After they died I found out they were very fungus prone. And I had the bottle of copper fungicide all along. They were a pretty good size for potted plants indoors, and expensive too lol. Oh well. I hope you get seeds too, they're gorgeous palms and fast too.

I guess you’re asking if its growth habit could extend its hardiness zone based on its ability to shoot back up if the above ground stems die? If so in theory I’d say yes. For similarly leaf/stem hardy species, the clumper will be more likely to come back than a solitary palm and there are recorded cases of clumping palms pushing new stems after dying back to the ground. Of course there’s probably no documentation of C rhizomatosa doing this since it’s so rare, but I’d expect it to have some hardiness to a tad below freezing. Down to right on freezing didn’t spot the fronds of mine, however, as I said above, mine never really pushed any significant growth before its decline.

Nice palms growing to perfection in your climate. My disticha has flowered about 4 times starting from the top working there way down. Now it’s in decline taking its time to die and it’s around 25 years old. And a very distinct distichous appearance. Luckily I have planted a few more and have about 50 seedlings growing.

It would be possible in your climate just bring it indoors in winter. There is not a lot people growing them in a cold climate due to its rarity, and the only one I know of in Australia in a cold climate died, due to unknown circumstances!

I miss mine a lot. I had 4 in a pot and one by one something just sucked the life out of them. The fronds all got droopy and then it's like the trunks (yeah,n they had rings!) just got sucked dry. Beautiful palms. I'll get some more one day when I've got room and money.

Technically not really it’s not like an underground rhizome. It’s a monocot and to rare to be pushing it into unknown frozen tundras!

@happypalms is in business!

It doesn’t get any better than this palm!

Yet I’ve heard what they do to palms in that torture chamber they call Tasmania! So that’s two orders so far! 🤣

Tim’s on top of the list for one when I can get one to him, but that’s only if he promises not too kill it!

Iam onto Tim don’t worry about that, chamaedoreas grow so well in my climate, it’s a chamaedorea paradise in my garden!

Well it’s a rare one indeed. Time to ramp up production then! I can’t see anyone in the future bringing any into the country in a while we are very lucky Colin did his homework and needs to commended for doing so!

Hello Tim, I thought you had one Hmmm!

hope2build, Welcome to Palmtalk ! I live in the Parkside, with a 42 year old palm garden, many species, invite yourself over for a visit sometime !

Not much different still in the greenhouse waiting to plant them out I might do this afternoon now you mentioned them🤣

I bet you wish you had that one @peachy it’s not clumping! Richard

I don’t know your climate but a rule of thumb is if you sit in the ground and you get a cold feeling in the buttocks then your soul temperature is down and the metabolic rate has slowed down in the plant. I don’t fertilise my container plants when it starts to get cold but I don’t think it’s not going to hurt feeding your plants now in the ground. I planted palms all winter but I don’t get frost. But I did throw some organic fertiliser around in mid winter just to give it time to break down for spring rains and be beneficial.

I agree, I looked through Palmpedia looking at solitary Arenga species other than engleri but none seemed to fit. I didn't even question what it was at the time I bought it but now that it's been in the ground for a couple years and still no suckers made me start wondering... 🤔

Have ordered twice. Good communication, quick ship and nice seeds. Thanks Philippe!

Last time I drove by earlier this year it was still there hanging on.

Yes the @peachy camp for for palm growers who loath clumping palms, actually that would be a group to join, hi iam @Fusca and I don’t like clumping palms it all started when I was…….🤣

Good to know Richard, but I'm in the @peachy camp - I prefer the solitary look myself. 😆 I figured that it should probably be suckering by now.

That one should be suckering by now. At least five years they should be starting. To try to stimulate suckering tear away the leaf sheath, yes I know a no no in palm cultivation but it promotes suckering I do it with my variegated rhapis.

Hi Palm folks! Here's an update from a year and a half ago on the sabals growth. Loves the heat here.

My wife's favorite palm is our Caryota gigas. It is probably the most commented on palm in our Carlsbad rental's garden. It caught my attention when I was over there today.

This variegated Royal