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Interesting palm, getting scary big as well. Every year I look at it and go hmmmmm…… Acquired it in a 1 gallon pot in 2019, still no trunk and extremely long fronds. Interesting pinnae arrangement in pairs, thin and long. Dioecious, I doubt I’ll be getting a mate. Too bad, I was looking forward to making my own buttons from the seeds. There is an orange handled full size shovel in one of the photos for scale. Tim

Left to right: Thrinax Radiata, Copernicia Baileyana, Copernicia Macroglossa.

Parks and Recreation.

The nana would have to be one of my favourite small understory palms, so easy to grow and propagate. Very easy to hand pollinate, somewhat cool tolerant, tolerant of a little dry weather. You can predict its growing pattern for the landscaping areas. Perfect patio palm. Will take a little morning sun and just down right beautiful.

It looks like an onilahensis

Piccabeen palm in Australia is the common name. And yes the good old Bangalow palm is Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana. It’s a good sales trick, oh i havent got that palm! So if you see a piccabeen palm for sale you already have it!

This was the best looking one in town after 2021, that photo is a 2022 street view. Even flowering, obviously a tall variety. There are more good looking ones now 5 years after that freeze obviously.

Looks like a Bangalow to me.

Without looking at the palm , I cannot help. I will say I bought two “King” palms at HD years ago . One was a double and one single . I knew immediately that the single was not a Cunninghamiana like the double . Turns out it was(is) an Alexandrae . It has silvery undersides and a bottle shaped trunk . Big box stores don’t really know palms that well. Harry

I installed a venturi system in my irrigation hose and I am lowkey thrilled (excuse the gen Z language). My water is not too hard, doesn't leave white marks on leaves for instance, but its pH is 8! I add citric acid through venturi and the water has now a pH of 6.5! I hope this will make a difference for my plants. For a small garden like mine, the cost is negligible, less than 1 dollar per watering for citric acid. Anyone else has tried this? Here is a photo of the Venturi; I know it looks totally amateur-ish but oh well, it works. I dilute the citric acid in the black deposit; I am planning to get a bigger one so I don't have to refill every time.

Thanks for feedback. And yes, we will have to do some customizing to make the Dark Mode better. It will have to wait until we get everything else straightened out. But it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. And changing “little things,” once we get the hang of it, should be simple. Main Logo is a different story. We need to create a completely new graphic on transparently background.

Yes, it is up and running.. That said, i do notice that if using Firefox, you have to select Dark Mode ( regular screen when you go straight to the site is white ) while on Duck Duck Go, the site is automatically in dark mode when you start from there.. PT in Dark Mode Looks good, regardless.

Hi all, Some years ago, this palm was purchased as a seedling, labeled “Dypsis sp. unknown, rare”. Knowing full well that this was a mere marketing ploy, I elbowed other customers out of the way in my effort to grab it before someone else could. In all seriousness, it was very pretty, showing a nice chalky white crown shaft at that young age. It’s a medium size palm, and has kept that attractive white crown shaft. I’m just not sure where the separation point is between the two species. I suspect others are growing this, so feel free to weigh in!

Yes it’s Dypsis onilihanses.

Dypsis decipens, dypsis Titan, beccariophoenix alfredii!

Here’s a volunteer in my garden. Dam weeds they are!

Pinanga sarawakensis and a new leaf opening on the polyandrococus caudescens.

Love that Macroglossa !!!!

The place next to the Riverdale post office has a lot of Sabal palmetto around it. The Embassy Suites near the airport has some new plantings that appear to be doing well; mostly Sabal palmetto and Trachycarpus fortunei. The Quality Inn near the airport has some nice Trachycarpus fortunei. When I was there, I saw a pinnate palm volunteer (Phoenix or Butia most likely) in the Fogo De Chao landscaping.

@96720 yeah most of the "monster" palms also seem to be pretty slow, especially the fan palms. Big ones like Causiarum are slow too, at least to get started on the bigger fans. I actually don't know of any monster sized and quick palms. Arenga Pinnata is reasonably fast, but in my climate it just gets torched and defoliated every other year. In a >30F environment it might be much faster, but I don't know about dry desert heat. @Sabal King any comments on the relative speed of the "Caribbean Mystery" palm? I'm trying to figure out a good spot for one, but I already have 4 slowish Causiarum and a moderately quick Lisa.

Alright, here are 2 pics. On closer examination, I see signs of what looks like limited Ramenta on ther undersides of the leaflets. So that means this is just a Cunninghamiana? It still doesn't explain its ultra dark green original fronds that seem unphased to full sun and heat, and the new emerging fronds just as dark green. The canopy is as dark gteen as a super healthy queen palm. All of my other Cunninghamiana have new fronds that are vibrant bright medium green that looks totally different with the original fronds all yellow and tattered

OK, here are three pics of my palm: And here are three habitat pictures taken by Jeff Marcus, I think in October 2008: Interesting topic, thanks for bringing it up.

One of my dream palms

Hey, Everyone Looks like it’s been almost a year since my last update. Be fun to see what other Caribbean palms that people are trying in the region. Copernicia Fallaensis This has thrown a number of spears since I dug it up and replanted it, last spring, I believe. Copernicia Macroglossa This one has been through a lot. Also dug and replanted last spring (from memory). Maybe 2 new spears, since planting.

Good question. It depends on the weather cooler temps, less frequently. It also depends on the genus & species. Some get watered every other day in the warm seasons. Mounted plants need more than potted. Living in the coastal zone I get more humidity than areas even a mile back from the ocean. The coastal Southern California humidity is still nothing like the humidity in the Southeast US.

@realarch that's a new palm for me! If you had showed me photos without an ID, I might have guessed some form of Attalea. Thanks for sharing this cool palm!

Of the palms I've planted, two musts for such conditions should be Pinanga coronata and Bentinckia condapanna. If they're not in a hurry, Hedyscepe and Kentias/Belmores.

As I have noted before even a doctor would want to see scans before a diagnosis. Pictures please then the world of palms can give you a diagnostic report of the palm you have!

A picture really IS worth a thousand words...😎 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Hyphaene spp. Maybe coriacea or petersiana

Dark mode would be my biggest suggestion. I do like the idea of a dedicated "species descriptions" forum. I use Palmpedia a lot, but it has recently changed hands and I get popups asking for $ often. That makes me wonder if it might spontaneously vanish one day. The Freeze Data forum is a great resource, just IMHO a Species Descriptions forum (or Wiki-like editable pages) could be useful.

Photo dump. I've clearly dove headfirst into alocasias. I've managed to build a nice little collection of them in a very short period of time, between big box rehab separations and late night live auctions. And for those that don't know, they reproduce through corms that grow from the roots. Got some cool, cool stuff. I don't go all crazy for variegation like some of these people out there but best believe if I see a deal I'm gonna snatch it up, grow it out and flip it. I also found an absolutely huge Batik variegated/snow/blizzard alocasia at the local Cash Saver grocery store. I got a 5g, a 1g, and 22 corms for....well I won't say what I paid for it, but the corms alone will more than cover what I paid for it. Most of these should get to be a decent size, too. I got a couple begonias to just mix things up, one of them looked like hammered dog poop when it got here and the other one wasn't what I ordered. Chalk it up to the game I guess. Anyway they did a bunch of bloodwork today, I'm gaining weight like crazy, took some x rays of my hip since I've pretty abruptly lost range of motion. Sancho needs some bloodwork, both of our Dr's think we both have thyroid problems now. Waiting on benefits is painfully stupid.

We have 3 1000 litre shuttles for fertilisers that last two days in between refilling. And use fertiliser by the tonne! It’s a fun job it’s not rocket science but the hot days keep you pretty busy. It’s called irrigation but in fact we call it irritation, great when it’s working but when it’s not working and something is wrong on a 38 degree celcius day in poly tunnels, let’s just say the pressure is on and we are not talking about water pressure!

Here you go @Than one of five Venturis we have at work!

Below some palms in the green house I took during my visit to Antwerp zoo

Man it's going to be pretty hot next week!

An absolute perfect chamaedorea adscendans. They don’t get any better than this beauty!

Livistona rigida, thanks @Jonathan👍🎁

lilium yellow bruse

Chamaedorea elaitor

Pseudophoenix vinifera at Mounts:

C saintelucei fresh trunk caught an eye.

Looking at the outer edge of the garden, in there is a whole world of joy

After one night of 1⁰C and another one of 0⁰C for some hours.

Two cousins to compare..armata and super silver..

My two in ground Brahea dulcis after their first cold 8a winter(possibly 7b) and buck attacks. They are getting a nice blue/silver coloration on the leaves.

2014 was a bad year. 10°F, 12°F, snow. Took out Butia, Chamaerops, even some b/b palmetto. ATL to CLT is prone to ice storms. After that, no more cold-hardy palms at the big-bix stores. Trachycarpus is found mostly on older properties. Millennials don't like to garden here. They buy big houses on small lots with HOAs.

Perhaps because it's landlocked and nowhere near a beach? IMO, it would just seem pretentious. Atlanta is its own vibe.

Just spotted a coconut palm in North Park, San Diego. Not even 100 feet from my place and I never noticed it 😓. It needs some serious water and chicken poop. Even the jade succulent next to it looks dehydrated. My mission will be meeting this neighbor and getting it hydrated! I wasn’t sure it was a coconut until I saw the actual coconut at the bottom

Update on mine.