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A few more seeds of a few interesting varieties. Starting to get into a few cycas species they always are winner for any palm grower, just set and forget and wait while the palms grow, a great sideline plant cycas!

15 gallon Brahea Edulis 125.00 15 gallon Brahea Super Silver 125.00 1 gallon Butia Eriospatha 60.00 can ship 3 gallon Chamaedoria Costaricana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaedoria Hooperiana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera 75.00 can ship

I wonder if this is the one they moved last year. I was wondering if that palm survived , they are very root sensitive . I know they have more than one Bizmarkia down there . Harry

Some red beauty

Ptychosperma wotoboho tucked in for the coming winter!

Chambeyronia macrocarpa, Calyptrocalyx benga dawn noda

A neglected Hyophorbe lagencaulis (bottle palm) at Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. It’s amazing it’s still alive considering how neglected this palm has been. I believe it was planted in 2021 or 2022.

A nice duo of licuala fordiana!

This is the second time this has happened to this Geonoma, once I can understand, perhaps a grower mistake. But twice now so what am I doing wrong. It has recovered both times. But what’s going on?

I got mine from Bret too. It didn't look too interesting until it got bigger so I had kind of ignored it. Also, when I planted it, I somehow forgot to put a ripper on it so it had no water for a year or two and didn't grow. Doing good now, one of my favorites.

I do believe your climate is temperate correct? If so try to avoid rock mineral based substrate, it’s too cold in winter especially when wet. Go for a warmer substrate mix like coco coir perlite and a little good quality potting soil. A much warmer substrate mix. If you want to grow subtropicals and tropicals in cold climates.

Throwing a few in the ground, tried and tested for my climate, I know they grow easily so get a few more exotics in the ground. I know my garden and the dry spots to the wet areas, and choosing what tolerates a little dry is the key. Which makes it a lot easier for planting out saving all those wet areas for the good stuff. Chuniophoenix nana Japanese variegated rhapis darumashinikiarenga hookerianakerriodoxa elegans

Here’s a beautiful full Bismarckia nobilis, Pandanus utilis and Royal palms in the background at Balboa Park, San Dieg, CA.

Bismarckia

flash sale Take extra 10.00 of each of these overgrown palms thank you Costaricana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaedoria Hooperiana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera 75.00 can ship

Very nice, has already sprouted! I can see it lost some limbs but it looks much better than mine! I bet it can survive 0 C if it happens sporadically as long as you keep the soil dry. If mine survives, next winter I will cover the soil around it with plastic to stop the water and also dig a trench around it.

It has been 4 years since the first inflorescence emerged on this Puya alpestris ssp zoellnarii. This is the first time since then that it has bloomed. I am getting excited for the most spectacular display my garden gives. Neighbor's periodically ask me when it will flower again and I finally can answer with something other than "patience", since I never know until it happens.

@oroenpaz Ditto that info, my seedlings are erratic growers withing the seed crop. My smaller diameter Hedyscepe in the back yard is a better parent than the heavy bodied one in the front yard.

just secured another 5 -1 gallon Butia Eriospatha sale will end Sunday thank you

An interesting feature with this tree that I've noticed is that it 'closes' all its leaves at night. Possibly an adaptation to conserve moisture in a desert environment?🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I have had this happen before on other varieties of palms, but not twice like this one. It just does it out the blue for no apparent reason, growing great then it just flips out, this is the only geonoma that does this in my collection! Richard

I can see why you bring them indoors, in a cold climate like that with ptychosperma elegans!

I do believe it’s a gaggle of geese and a grove of palms!

Yes, while surprising, I find coralloid roots all over my garden at a similar distance from any Cycads. Some are isolated by paver walkways about 3 feet wide from the closest Cycad. I have drip irrigation and find coralloid roots near the emitters of palms and other non Cycad plants. If you search for posts with "coralloid" in the title, you will find a string I started a few years back with some examples of stray coralloid clumps.

I am enjoying the color of this unknown species id Anthurium's flower spadix.

Houston botanic garden yesterday and a yard with a fairly large pindo in Pearland towards 45 South . peep the new washys along the freeway under planted with sabal minors @Xenon your favorite 😹😹😹dead Jubaea…. As expected lol

My Aloidendron dichotomum is starting to split into two growing points. The branching will be at about 5 1/2 to 6 feet.

Oh. I misread the topic.

A gaggle of Hyophorbe lagenicaulis at Four Arts:

Probablemente llegamos a 0 grados este invierno ,cuando lo plante en la tierra espero que aguante mejor y no se sequen las ramas o nunca florecerá . Hablo en español por qué mi inglés no es muy bueno y mi navegador automáticamente me traduce al español , espero que el vuestro también

Dypsis decaryi looking fantastic.

Caryota kirriwongensis

Dypsis faneva

Update on this guy. It’s now spit into two trunks. Still lots of color. If officially named it “dypsis sp. quaman” until I get a better ID.

Walt's wife just posted on the main forum on an Elaeis guineensis post that he passed away in June 2025. I don't know if she is aware of this subforum so figured I would post here. I never met Walt, however, have been following his posts on his garden since approximately 2003. He was one of the first contributors who regularly posted photos in posts, which I always appreciated because I lived in Seattle, WA at the time and loved seeing palm photos. It was fascinating learning about the difference between USDA zones in CA and FL because of him, as he would "famously" grow coconuts in USDA zone 9b! He also would share photos of his trees that would recover from seasonal frosts. Anyways, his posts will be missed!

Richard's Anthurium thread sent me down an Aroid rabbit hole where I discovered I had an Aroid species hiding in plain sight in the greenhouse. In fact it turns out that I have the entire monotypic genus, ie Gymnostachys anceps. It's a pretty weird plant for an Aroid, looking more like a sedge or Dianella sp. Grows from southern NSW to north Queensland in rainforest and forest margins. Common name is Setlers Flax due to the apparently very fibrous leaves. I'd been wondering whether it was viviparous, as it looks to almost have small plants on the inflorescence, the pic below from the ANBG website seems to show that it is, so I might give that a go. Probably not a species that's going to set the indoor plant market on fire any time soon, but an interesting curio that I'll be happy to give a place to in my garden.

This is a fast grower!

Some plants just have a genetic flaw that makes them not grow normally. It is rare but does happen . Harry

Could it be a genetic flaw or something? Do you have others of this species that do not display this malady? Harry

Just a prank. Visited his garden during after hours and replaced the ptycho with a tor tor!

It was planted in City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane last year. I’ll have to pop back there soon to check on it and post a picture update. Here is the link to the latest photos of it. https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/91289-palm-donations-to-brisbane’s-botanical-gardens/

Hello everyone, My name is Sebastián Vieira, and I’m writing from Colombia. I’m a naturalist and currently the Executive Director of Salvamontes Colombia, a non-profit organization focused on the conservation and restoration of threatened species and their habitats, mainly through the creation and long-term care of private natural reserves. Although I didn’t come to conservation through a formal biology track ( I originally studied and worked as an engineer and spent many years working in telecommunications ), my interest in plants and the natural world has been with me for as long as I can remember. Over time, that curiosity slowly turned into field work, conservation projects, nature photography, and taxonomic research, especially on Pleurothallid orchids. It was that long, hands-on relationship with nature that lead me to be a co-founder of Salvamontes, and nowadays, its leader. Andy Hurwitz invited to come and participate in PalmTalk, and share with everyone here our amazing story, so it’s really nice to finally introduce SalvaMontes and our work here, especially thanks to the invitation from the International Palm Society, whose support has been fundamental for one of the projects I care most deeply about. That project is the Sabinaria Natural Reserve, located in the Darién region of northwestern Colombia, close to the border with Panama. This is an incredibly rich rainforest area, still poorly studied, and it happens to be the only place on Earth where the striking palm Sabinaria magnifica is found. A few years ago, while visiting the area, it became clear that much of the known habitat of Sabinaria magnifica was privately owned and increasingly exposed to deforestation and land-use change. Given how limited the species’ distribution is, it doesn’t take much habitat loss to create serious long-term risks. With that in mind and with crucial support from the International Palm Society, we were able to acquire and legally protect 50 hectares of tropical rainforest, securing what we believe is a meaningful portion of the global habitat and population of Sabinaria magnifica. Today, that forest is permanently protected as a private natural reserve. What makes this especially rewarding is that Sabinaria magnifica also works as an umbrella species. By protecting its habitat, we’re also conserving many other threatened organisms that depend on the same intact forest. This includes species like the critically endangered harlequin frog Atelopus fronterizo and the rare tree Magnolia sambuensis, along with many other plants and animals that are still little known. For us, Sabinaria is much more than a single-species project. It reflects a broader way of doing conservation: protecting habitat first, learning directly from the field, working with local communities, and committing to long-term stewardship rather than short-term interventions. I’m really glad to be here and look forward to learning from all of you, sharing updates from the field, and exchanging ideas about palms and their conservation around the world. I am also sharing some images showing the Sabinaria palm and its natural habitat. Finally, it is very important to thank and recognize the important support and participation of biologists Norman Echavarría, Norberto López, Saul Hoyos, Gloria Galeano and Rodrigo Bernal. Without them this project would not be a reality. PS: I will come back soon with additional information and images. Warm regards from Colombia, Sebastián Salvamontes Colombia

An interesting and beautiful ecological interaction that we were able to observe during our last visit to the reserve, was this group of Pygmy fruit eating bats (Artibeus phaeotis), modifying and using a leaf of Sabinaria magnifica as their daytime roost. Sabinaria is possibly an important resource for this bat species in the area.

@jwitt In my humble opinion, plastic growing bags get considerably colder faster and for a longer period. My own rule of thumb is if planted in a plastic nursery pot, you subtract about 5⁰f from the actual temperature. Now plastic growing bags have a very thin layer, so it would be significantly lower than that. I'm still trying to gauge how much that temperature difference might be. Were the survival palms in the middle of the group or the exterior? If they were in the middle or against a wall, than my guess is that they were more insulated.

Winter low of 18f. A mild winter in my yard. These filifera were in the garage and did not see that 8b low. I had a 6% survival rate! In fact, the lowest these saw was around 25f. 6%!!!!!

The passing of a great man. RIP Walt.

My condolences to him, definitely a legend of 9B zone pushing. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that learned a lot of things from his videos and posts even though I never personally knew him.

Here it is today.