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Cyphophoenix elegans doing its best flamethrower impersonation.

Did you ever pull the trigger and grow one? They get big over time. I am in a different climate zone but do have experience growing a couple of Caryota species including gigas now lumped in as obtusa. I would not underestimate the project it will be to remove it someday. The one I acquired as gigas is well over 20 years old. The trunk is massive in diameter but it hasn't gained the height of some around town in Encinitas and adjacent communities.

I got a few floating around my garden, such a nice palm. Nothing beats driving up the driveway and seeing the red flame in amongst the green forest.

L rupicola and friends…

I love Australia 🇦🇺

After about 2 years i waited, finally its getting pinnate😄

First new leaf since planting out our Lepidorrachis mooreana, obtained from @Darold Petty last autumn.

Just planted this lipstick queen hybrid palm In zone 10b Whittier California ( So Cal ) Los Angeles County It has two suckers growing on it Filtered sun Wish me luck 6/9/26

Iam so glad they kept these beauties as dypsis variety’s. If ever there was a species of palms that are a standout it would have to be the smaller dypsis varieties. I just love them such magical palms. Dypsis procera Dypsis minuta Dypsis spDypsis lantzeana Dypsis CLBS Dypsis sp

A nice selection catching my eye today! Male Cham adscendens, a few Platycerium, the good old Chambeyronia followed by the Kentiopsis oliviformis!

Variegated rhapis, iguanura broad leaf and a nice Dypsis species for a bit of colour floating around the garden!

There still coming up, the cycas seeds are popping well. A few new varieties and some batches are finished germinating. Winter is here so I think I will wait for spring before potting up some of them. Definitely looking forward too the curranii palm in the garden!

Encephalartos purebreds and hybrids 2+ inches of caudex, currently busting out of their 5x5x12 liners. At least 2 of each available at this size. $110 shippng in the United States only included (bare root, leaves cut). Encephalartos lehmannii Encephalartos trispinosus Encephalartos Horridus Encephalartos arenarius Encephalartos paucidentatus X horridus Encephalartos transvenosus X horridus Encephalartos Longifolius X horridus Encephalartos arenarius X horridus, very blue and spiky

Hello palmy friends! I have a few seeds from a friend’s beautiful palm that I can send out , or if anyone in the Ventura / Santa Paula area can pick up . They are less than a month off the palm and just sitting in my garage . I sowed about ten but have no use for the rest. PM me if you want any . Harry

Red and white pagoda lovely to look at, but my goodness they spread.

A couple of Cycas at different stages of flushing in the next photos. The Cycas thouarsii was acquired as a seedling in a 3×9 liner. It is ringed with pups and has a long spread or said differently, it takes a big footprint if allowed. I trimmed many of the lower leaves again, to allow the new flushes space. The almost hardened flush on a Cycas acquirdd as taitungensis is the second plant. It was also acquired as a seedling in a 3×9 liner. Patience is rewarding. I read that Cycss taitungensis has been lumped in with revoluta. This plant has more red fuzz on the lower sides of the rachis and top of the caudex than my plants acquired as revoluta though.

This is my first leaf that shows color. Every one is perfectly edged and the center w greenish yellow. It is Spectacular! It does looke like trunk is speckled. Cecile

Nice little time lapse pics!

Blue Latania new frond

Red Latania

A couple years ago I was on the hunt for shrubby palm, but I just couldn't bring myself to pay $250 for a 1 ft tall needle palm. I tried Oregon Palm nursury and thought I saw some nice ones tucked way back in the corner behind a bunch of other palms. I was wrong, I asked the owner and he said those were just some random 5 gal pots that he threw Trachy seeds into when he had more seeds than he could deal with. There were about 30 Trachys sprouting up and they looked like a needle palm, so I gave him $40 for the pot. I left them in and just sunk the whole container in the ground so they would stay restricted. After 3 years they still look pretty much the same. I pulled them out to do so planting behind them, so I got a few pictures. 3 yrs ago In place - last fall Now There are probably 6-8 stems that are becoming dominant. Those ones have grown 4-6 in taller, but the rest are still alive and looking healthy too. They've serve their purpose very well.

Chambeyronia hookeri doing its best cyphophoenix impersonation.

Oh yeah! A great time for inspiration…

The seeds were sent out today . My friend gets back from Japan in a couple of weeks and there are more over there ( a lot!). Good luck to all of you . I just got a Chambeyronia Hookeri to sprout , it took about 6 months with no heat . I just stuck the seed in a container and splashed water on it once in a while . It was outside under some other palms all through winter. I had two seeds , still waiting on the other seed. Patience is key. Harry

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Same palms different angle.

Or towering teddy bears (Chysalidocarpus leptocheilos) - at left - aflame in the setting sun.

@OCKev and @sonoranfans my Archontophoenix tuckeri in the westering light of late afternoon….

Consider Chambeyronia! Oliviformis macrocarpa….

Carpentaria

As a resident of the island for the past 7 years I can confirm there are no groves of coconut trees here, and those photos are not of Mallorca. Chances are you are confusing the city of Palma with the island La Palma in the Canaries

A few future generations of palms! Dypsis confusa Calyptrocalyx hollrungii Hydriastele kaesialicuala cabaloni Kentiopsis piersonorium reinhardtia gracilis Chuniophoenix nana

Geonoma pycnostachys, I absolutely love this palm!

Hmmm, are you sure that's a Jubaea? The arching leaves suggest Butia to me.

My first impression with the 20-25 jubaeas in containers and hybrids Ive seen is that it looks like JxB, the jubaea mother. These are great hybrids if they can be happy, and they grow much faster than jubaea. If its a pure jube, I haven't seen one like that in my limited experience. Its surely not a J x B which tend to be much more recurved in the petiole. It also doesnt look like any pure butia species I have seen.

To me, it looks more like a butia.

My latest success in germinating . Chambeyronia Hookeri . This sat in my garden all winter , one of two seeds gathered from Sullivan’s palm. Harry Sort of a “Where’s Waldo” situation . I only noticed it a few days ago. Just to the right of the perlite chunks. The seed was very large , almost filling this wee container . Harry

There fantastic little palms, chamaedoreas are one genus to love, but when it comes to these little beauties iam hooked! Richard

I finally see a sprout from one of two seeds I got from Sullivan’s gorgeous Hookeri . I was talking to Terry while admiring the palm full of fruit when I looked down and saw two red fruit on the ground . Terry said to take them , but be patient. They are slow to germinate . Harry I will have to swing by to see if there is any more fruit on the ground . Unfortunately it is too tall to reach .

Really cute little palms, regardless of what the genus is called . Dypsis / Chrysalidiocarpus (Neodypsis?)has been reclassified but doesn’t have any effect on how I look at them . I try to stay up with it but I’m still unsure on some of them . Harry

Here’s a nice little batch for the garden! Basselina pseudovelutinaSabal mauritiformis Linospadix monostachya dypsis poiveana Pholidiocarpus macrocarpus Areca mandacanii Ptychococus paradoxus

Used my drone to see what is happening inside the coconut. Still waiting for the first spear to be 'normal'. In the 2018 freeze that wasnt until July. A few other drone shots of palm recovery in Orlando.

Interesting plant both plain and unique…

Thank you, two of my favorites.

Was cleaning up some stuff that was overgrowing my Chamaedorea cataractum and found a good amount of seedling underneath. I've only managed to germinate three intentionally despite trying each year, so just leaving it alone and transplanting the seedlings will be the plan going forward. There is already a new crop of seeds developing. Definitely an underused species in Houston, especially given how cheap and widely available they are.

These are real Chilean jubaes

Time to pot up some gingerbread palm sprouts! (Hyphaene coriacia) This is an African native that also does well in the Phoenix metro area, although is rarely seen due to lack of availability from local nurseries. One cool feature of Hyphaene species is that they often become multi headed over time. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

SOLD OUT! Tremendous response for these sprouted buccaneer seeds. Multiple orders went out to Florida, with 1 order to Palm Springs, California, and another to South Padre Island, Texas. I've had great luck growing multiple batches of this species myself, so hopefully, others can be just as successful. It really is a tough, very adaptable palm, the only drawback being its slow rate of growth. Thanks to all that purchased.😄🌴 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I am aware. It is unfortunate that they are monocarpic. As far as, is it worth it? Yes and no but I stopped keeping track of the money wasted on palms and tropical plants, along time ago.