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There is a an undocumented population of Braheas located just 40 miles south of Douglas, Arizona near the town of Esqueda, Sonora. These palms seem to be a variation of the Brahea Calcarea but with a taller trunk and fuller crown. I would also like to mention that these specimens of Brahea are very likely to be more hardy than Brahea Armata considering they are growing in elevations of 4000 or more where winters are extremely more cold than that of the Brahea Armata range. They palms are located in a ranch named Rancho Los Baños - Tierra Chamahua EcoAdventures which appears to have recently closed and has virtually no public access. There are dozens of pictures of the palms in the TripAdvisor page of the ranch online. I thought yall would enjoy knowing of these groves as they might have the potential of being the MOST hardy Brahea of all the genus. Getting seeds from these plants would be amazing but the location is very remote and a known area of high cartel activity.

Just pulled off a leaf base this morning and noticed the first ring!! Tree is about 16-17ft overall. Zone 10b. Was bought as a Floribunda 1 gallon around 2019. Does anyone in South FL have a Redneck with trunk. The true C. lastellianus seems pretty rare here...all you see are C. leptocheilos

Iam actually surprised how quick my trackys are growing once past the baby seedling stage I thought they were all relatively slow. I suppose they are to reach maturity. But iam happy with how they are growing.

I spotted these Parajubeas near our hotel in The Presidio. Beautiful!! Mine in Dana Point is struggling. Enjoy IMG_8662.mov

Oraniopsis appendiculata git a little attention after I walked past it.

If you got em plant em!

I dislike to say it but that’s the way customs are hit and miss ratio!

Patience is a virtue!

Haven’t noticed it yet I only looked at them yesterday, I have 4 greenhouses and I know the water requirements of them all, so I only get over once a week to the tacky one. But don’t worry iam building another greenhouse so 5 in total because I don’t I have a lot to do yet 🤣

Just passing along the sad news that Bill Austin passed away about a month ago after battling lung cancer. This is a huge loss to the Big Island palm community. Bill was a great guy.

A few more seeds going into the propagation process. Time will tell how many I get. Some nice Pinanga in this batch.

It appears that it has survived the move. ☺️ Two weeks after the transplant the yard was flooded from 14" of rain in a 30 hour period so it sat in water again for a week or so despite being in a higher spot. Absolutely no visible change in 7 months until recently. Meanwhile the water company finally came and fixed the leak in June so no more swamp! 🥴

Yes, plenty of styrofoam boxes here from plenty of naughty salmon farmers, and no I didn’t manage to find any candied salmon in the end. I've used those boxes in the past for Parajubaeas and Ceroxylon spp, definitely works well. As for the cold down here...well, you enjoy being roasted alive for the next 6 months and I'll enjoy the luxurious comfort of the Tasmanian summer!

Sorry frond friend I thought you where Jonathan in Tasmania🤣

That job is still here for you working in them gyuseppe my friend👍

I thought it was already cool enough for you down there, when you say very cool i assume you mean the daytime temperatures you have! Fruit shops have styrofoam box’s or even go see Tassel the fish farmers that are wrecking the Tasmanian environment iam sure they have plenty of styrofoam box’s for there salmon thay I don’t buy! That reminds me did you try candied salmon in sunny Manitoba.

flypower191, Welcome to Palmtalk ! Great pictures and info, thanks for posting.

5 greenhouses soon! Congratulations!

In the greenhouse over about 12 months and almost gave up on them. Average temperature was around 22 degrees Celsius give or take a few. In a styrofoam box with a lid.

What temperature did you use for germination @happypalms?

So is planting palms gyuseppe!

On a brief trip back to the mother land, this mature Phoenix canariensis growing on the coast at Middleton on Sea, West Sussex caught my eye.

Slow but steady for C nucele here in Melbourne. Probably not an ideal climate, but it’s trouble free and stays a deep green. It’s a bit stretched out and fronds droop more than typical probably because it’s in mostly shade at this stage. Hard to get a good photo due to the larger palms around it, including the Chrysalidocarpus arenarum to the right in the photo which protects it from the north side.

Actually I thought that about Metallica being sticky and had success with a few seeds, but then I discovered yellow powder pollen withe Metallica. And I had a much better success with the powder, which is much harder to collect than the sticky.

There are two kinds of pollen in this genus, the powdery one and the sticky one. Your lucky, that adscedens has former kind.

It's 🐂 💩 man, we're literally trying to keep a lot of these plants from going extinct, we're cleaning the air, we're beautifying the world around us and they act like it's a crime. It's not my strong suit, that's for sure. Bananas and philodendrons are going nuts though, and I dunno if you've checked my thread or my YouTube lately but I'm building a pretty nice setup back here to keep everything growing through the winter. I'm not on your level by any stretch of the imagination, but I've come a long way from a couple lightbulbs in a dark apartment. I'm actually glad my family are hoarders now because I'm throwing everything I can find on eBay. The eBay money gets split between my nursery and the house, and Sancho's GoFundMe is all for him - I'm not touching that money.

That a beauty that one Harry! Richard

Princeps are known to be hard to germinate.

Watch this space closely they say🤣

So it lives? Great! This was a single-leaf cotyledon baby, bare-rooted and stuck in a box for 6 days. I just knew the weekend at the post office was going to do it in, but just over a month later it’s growing already? Amazing. Acoelorraphe must be tough right from the start.

Any silver colour showing on the Sitijong yet Richard? From what I’ve read, they shouldn’t end up too dissimilar to the Stone Gate princeps (which is a good thing!).

Ofc there's a YouTube coming for both of you that watch it and read this. Anyway here's some pics from tonight. Today's Amazon haul from flipping crap in the house. Chains for my shop lights, 4 cu ft of perlite (the plywood is 4ft tall for reference) and 100 1 gallon cheap nursery pots. Lights are at a better height. 4 cu ft of perlite sounded like a lot, but look at what I've used so far - that tote was FULL. Had to bring my willow rootings in due to the cats knocking them over to get water. Sabal Bermudana doesn't look very green, Sabal Louisiana sprouts look good, the acelapho... Whatever, the Everglades palm from @5am is pushing a new leaf. Potted and bagged a dozen papayas. I think the herd has been culled, but the fried chicken tray is still moving slowly. The ones in the one gallon community pot did better than the ones in Tupperware but the ones in Solo cups aren't dead yet. I'm holding out hope for these pothos..and one of the willow cuttings was not only rooting, but growing, so like - come on and join the fun bunch, man. Nice big fat hardwood cuttings.

They take a while to germinate. I bought 42 seeds, and only one sprouted. The others are already starting to germinate.

Seedling #3 first bloom opened today. Quite different than the 1st two.

I'm still waiting on the ones you sent me to pop. I'd love to get my hands on some Metallica but it's absolute hell trying to import anything here now.

Yer I will pay that, a good little gadget to have. You wouldn’t need much pollen either.

You know, sometimes a dioecious palm sets some viable seed without a male anywhere around. I’ve seen it with Bismarckia and Trachycarpus. I would still try germinating those seed and if any sink in water there’s a good chance it may still come up. You just may not get a great germination percentage but you have tons there. It’s worth a try.

I’ll second what Tom says. Beautiful palm JD! I’ve had one for many years (maybe 10?) in a semi-protected raised planter and I’m very proud to say it opened 2 leaves this year and is all of chest high. So, basically it dislikes it here, but not enough to cark. I’m oddly impressed by its resilience. My hope is that it slowly speeds up; they are indeed beautiful palms.

Nice...... California dreaming

Fall Update #4 - Chrysalidocarpus Corner The map shows the locations of the bed: The View From the Border: This is the view you get from the pathway to the neighboring property. Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus X 2: They tend to get some rachis blight, but they are coming along pretty well. Chrysalidocarpus pembanus X 2: A pair of Chrysalidocarpus pembanus have taken their rightful spot after a mislabeled Allagoptera arenaria was moved. In the background, you can see a very young Chrysalidocarpus plumosus. Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos X 3: The Bambusa oldhamii has the first one surrounded, but it seems to be OK. The middle photo is of one that was adopted from @RiverCityRichard and placed in the ground where the pot is currently located. I took it out of the ground because it has been declining. Hopefully it will recover. The last photo is one I got at the 2023 Plantae-palooza Sale. Chrysalidocarpus cabadae: This is the most sensitive to cold out of the bunch, but it looks fantastic when the temperature stays up. Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus: Up to three trunks at this point - keep going. Chrysalidocarpus madagascariensis 'Mahajanga': Another adopted palm. The adult trunks seem to struggle, while the young offsets are doing alright. Chrysalidocarpus decaryi: These seem to grow really well here. There are more on the other side of the bed growing in a pile of broken concrete. All of mine are seed-grown from local specimens planted before 2007. Chrysalidocarpus lutescens: Another palm in this genus that does well with little effort. There is another over on the other side of the property. All of mine are seed-grown from local specimens planted before 2007. Chrysalidocarpus decipiens: This is the star of the show this year, due to their reputation for being difficult in Florida. A gift from @Fishinsteeg234 at the CFPACS 2025 Summer Meeting in June, it went straight in the ground and hasn't been set back by intense heat. BONUS - The First Fruits: Dwarf Cavendish bananas and Choquette Avocados keep the grocery bills in check.

Part 2 - These are the Windmills and S. palmetto that went in ground April 2024. I wish I would have taken some reference pics of the trunks when planted. The windmills exploded in growth (and girth) this year. They have thoroughly enjoyed the cool fall we've had - it seems like they actually grow quite a bit more in the transitional seasons than in the heat of summer. My transplant palmetto has done well - im really happy with how much the crown has grown out in only 2 summers. All of the fronds present are new - It's got a couple of seed stalks that are beginning to brown up - and i have 5-6 offspring from last years batch in containers. No protection - last years low was 13F - thats where most of the discoloration came from on the palmetto.

Last hour of August sun.

I never, ever root things in water. Never have, never will. Water makes flimsy, fragile, easily breakable roots. Its much better to root in a 'solid' substrate...especially something like a Philodendron. Damp sphagnum moss, 'dirty moss' (moss mixed with a little perlite and fir bark) or just stick the cutting directly into soil.

There is/was a beautiful one nearby in the Quail Botanical Garden (now SD Botanical Garden). It got beat up when a tree above it crashed down taking out a few palms and trees. I haven't seen how it has recovered. Before that incident, I liked it so much that I planted one. Cyphophoenix elegans seems to take both significantly more sun and grows faster for me than C nucele, but I still have high hopes for it. Replacing my fence and in preparation moved pots so I was able to get a "clean shot" of my little C nucele.

Anyone else excited for the rain and cooler temperatures finally? #Lesswateringlol

I’m glad someone called this. I wasn’t able to edit after posting. Was supposed be be *15 gallon…. But yea. Basically had roots coiled around the bottom of the biggest pot I had. the roots were deeper that the plant was tall.

Another fix of some plants, no therapy needed for this ocd obsession. Just more plants for the garden. plants always arrive as if just picked up from the nursery. Adira legslis a small Brazilian tree, Pinanga sarawakensis, Dypsis lantzeana, anthurium claudiae and a Zamia angustifolia. Some for the collection. Quality packaging as usual.

Hi palm lovers alike, I have 2 of these beautiful palms but can’t remember what they are. Been in ground for 20 ish years, Queensland, Australia. Black stems, spineless, glossy smooth large leaves. We have had an extremely dry season and it’s struggling. Normally glossier Any identification tips would be appreciated 🌿❤️

Your palms look fine, they will drink as much water you give them. They only have one seed not two. The only way to tell if male or female is by the flowers. Little yellow mushy seed pods sounds like a female that is unpollinated flowers. The boys have a yellow powder.