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Here are some of the rarer species and hybrids in my collection. Most are long overdue fresh soil/planting out, but I have limited space in our current rental. Shall give them some TLC when we relocate to our new home once it's finished (hopefully next month). Trachycarpus wagnerianus x Trachycarpus princeps F1 Trachycarpus fortunei “Tesan” Trachycarpus latisectus Trachycarpus oreophilus Trachycarpus ukhrulensis Trachycarpus geminisectus Trachycarpus nova x Trachycarpus princeps F1 Trachycarpus fortunei “Nainital” x Trachycarpus princeps F1 Trachycarpus wagnerianus x Trachycarpus nova F1

I took a trip to Sago Rey Nursery here in Fresno for a nice palm haul and ended up bringing home a few nice cycads along with some palms. The cycads will go in the ground, and the palms will go into 5 and 15 gal pots to grow out for a few years. This is Macrozamia miquelii A hybrid encephalartos - if anyone can ID it I'll try to remember the name. Looks part trispinosus. Livistona decora A few Sabal Riverside Sabal rosei and a few Sabal uresana liners

This palm gets a bit too much sun this time of year and is more exposed to the sea breeze so it doesn’t always look its best. I fertilized it recently and now it’s starting to flower for the first time. Please share photos of yours if you grow this palm.

One of my 12 year old seed grown Encephalartos eugene-maraisii was producing way too many offsets so last September I decided to remove the offsets. To do this I removed the plant completely from the garden and washed off all the dirt to see how best to cut off the pups. The connection points were actually quite small and could easily be cut off with a sharp chisel with amazing little damage. Once removed, I soaked them in a fungicide solution and then allowed them to dry before adding a copper based fungicide and then tree pruning tar on the cuts. I planted all the pups in perlite for a few months and returned the main caudex to its garden location. Now, 10 months later the main caudex is finally starting to flush again. I’m not sure if removing the whole plant was the best way to do this but it's good to know it’s still alive. How do you guys remove your offsets?

Can you guys send me some seeds I don’t have those varieties in my collection yet don’t worry about the phytosanitary certificate iam sure they will get through customs just label them as plastic buttons 🤣

Well I know it's not the best time of year to move this palm but the last 2 years this palm has taken lots more damage in it's spot in the yard. Add that to that it is growing too tall for where it was and I decided to move it by the house. There are a few more reasons including us not being able to see the palm where it was. Now it is more sheltered and going to be in a group of 3 or more going up close to the wall.

Had to get onto my roof today so i took a few pics while i was up there. A perspective i don't get too often.

Yes. Have one in Central Fl, z9b. Been in the ground for a couple of years, slow but steady grower in the shade. It’s in a wet spot, and hasn’t had an issue with cold down to 27ish in 2022. Bought it from Redland in Homestead, and was told any fertilizer with nitrogen would cause it to lose mottling. The flower bed it’s in gets liquid miracle grow and that has in fact muted the mottling.

Update three years later picking up speed. These did better that my grandis's and, sadly, my one orbicularis, RIP. 😭

Those actually aren’t too bad. I’ve seen MUCH worse. This was outside a mall here in Southern California where palms grow everywhere! HarryPlasticarium Phonicarpis

I had a beautiful blue butia that I scored out of a sea of normal pindos in blue pots lined up in a home depot parking lot. I saw it while driving by, and knew I must have it. I was dumb and didn't protect it enough before the awful cold snap in 2018 that took out 3/4 of my "pindos". I am still mad at myself for loosing that palm, so hopefully this one gets some more color. RIP you beautiful bastard

In the past six years, the one in my front yard has formed trunk rings and is speeding up in growth. First photo is in 2018. I had to take photos in the dark tonight but you can still get an idea of growth progression.

I’m still trying to remember what street the towering B. edulis are in my town but here’s one much smaller but nice one in my area. The house was knocked down and a new home was built since this street view was taken and luckily the palm was spared and still looks good.

Exactly 6 years later ( july 23 2018) I' ll post pics of the same palm. Maybe other people that showed a pic of there D. decipiens in this thread, can also show how thy grew at there place.

A friend pulled this puppy out of a sale and planted it at his nursery!! This palm is 60 years old and stunning! Enjoy.

Living in Kentucky. I’ve seen many fake palms. Some stranger than others. I saw this one today. What are the strangest fake palms you have seen?

You find queens with that shuttlecock form occasionally throughout California. I've seen a handful of them myself, but I think that's just genetic. I've posted photos on here of a similar one growing at a gas station. This is an "abreojos" grown from the original California "abreojos" seed. As mentioned by others, it definitely looks nice, but it doesn't look like the original.

I have one in the ground in the 9a/b tundra since late 2021. It's a fairly steady grower and easy to protect on the handful of cold nights. I have it in morning sun and shade for most of the day, gets some filtered light in the early afternoon.

Not in the USA, but southern Brazil. subtropical climate, wet year round, acid loamy soil, fresh to cold winters, some freezing temperatures at night. The ones in full shade grow the best.

They are both accepted in their own right. If you’re ever unsure, Kew keeps a checklist on accepted species available online. My understanding is that C urens is restricted to India and Sri Lanka and the true form relatively rarely cultivated, whereas C maxima is widespread throughout Asia and commonly cultivated. C maxima also now contains the previously accepted C bacsonensis and C ochlandra among others and is quite variable in form.

Yes. That's what royal seed looks like. Look for the bluest,plump seeds for the best germinators if you want to grow a few new ones. Other option is just let them fall to the ground and dig up the seedlings as they sprout. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I have a few Zamia vazquezii but this one also has the best color when it flushes.

Yes Dave. I can point a garden hose, on full force, at any spot of soil in my garden and it never puddles no matter how wet it already is. The ground will just suck the water up. I get a lot of water volume out of my taps too.

I just visited Pauline Sullivan’s house (deceased) . Her grandson lives there now and I caught up with Terry. The Dypsis Decipiens are HUGE! I posted pics in a different thread. The soil seemed dry around the base so I think the soil they are in is fast draining . Terry told me they water frequently. The garden looked nice and well cared for. Harry

Looking awesome Richard. If you ever get to Phuket Thailand go and take a look at them in the wild. I went in 2012 through a forest trek in the middle of Phuket. Nobody was there and the path had been washed away in places. It’s a very humid rainforest environment full of Caroyotas, Pinangas, and I seem to recall Arengas. The Kerriodoxa are in a deep valley ravine right next to a stream, with their roots definitely right in it. The soil there is that rich red Asian volcanic mud with humus intermingled in. The Kerriodoxa there are the largest I’ve seen which is to be expected, maybe 10m max. Huge leaves, long black petioles. A beautiful place and way off the general tourist track. We got a minivan there and asked if the driver wanted to come. He said “No no” and sat in the van with the air con going waiting for us to return a few hours later. Definitely worth the effort and an unforgettable place.

Butia archeri Azul, Syagrus microphylla and Syagrus graminifolia Azul ( a slow grower for me)

I have 8 Dypsis decipiens growing here at my place and 2 at my parents home. They are not fast but trouble free palms in my tableland subtropical climate. The palms growing at my parents are beginning to form a trunk. Probably they like the well draining soil and all the rain water from a roof . This are my palms:

I don’t know about other’s situations but mine gets lots of water and often. Three to four days per week it gets a soaking and has since it was a small palm. It’s fat and happy and growing faster now that it’s got some real trunk. I will say that my soil drains well despite there being lots of clay a couple of feet under the top layer of loam.

These grow in Portugal side by side. First google image is from 2014. The dark green foliage and silvery petioles on the abreojos are quite distinct

Here is one that is like yours that i've seen in a town near me.

I don’t know why you continue to insist upon what I grow and what I don’t grow. For your information, I do have a mule, and a couple pindos. You act like I haven’t lived in this area for 7 years and haven’t studied my own growing zone and historical temperatures, and that I haven’t experienced any of my own winters as well as seeing what is growing in my area and what is not. Im very well aware that Queens are not long term palms here, you do not have to tell me that. I also know that even mules can take damage here based on historical temperatures. Unless I ask for recommendations, please stop giving them. Thank you.

It's the hardest to get hold of because seed export is prohibited from habitat and apparently the palms are guarded by armed Thai authorities. As cultivated specimens mature however, seed should be more available. Recently New Zealand produced some seed and I'm sure UK won't be far behind. I have 2 established juveniles so hoping for a male and female. Failing that, I would look for a pollen share to ensure this species becomes more widespread in cultivation.

In addition to leaflet stacking with Encephalartos latifrons hybrids I want to see that wide leaflet trait. The ratio of leaflet length to width biased to width. My favorite latifrons hybrid is this one which is with arenarius then backcrossed with latifrons pollen in the next generation. Super stcked leaflets which are chubby too.

@Merlyn I have a few dozen 1g elegans, and 1 3g Carpentaria. Also have a few 1g macarthurii, also available. I’m in Longwood near Wekiva. Welcome to come by, just let me know!

One of my absolute favourite palms in the garden is the Kerriodoxa I planted 20 plus years past it has faired quite well taking neglect and still looking good I never really noticed it until about 5 years past when it started to get a bit bigger they do look good small but nothing can beat one once past the juvenile age I will be planting more in the garden

Honestly, I just see a lot of Lehmanii in that plant. I don’t think there is Trispinosis. Picture of the caudex would be good. Looks nice and healthy tho. More people need to use Encephalartos. -dale

Is it armed? Some more pictures of the petioles might help.

I agree, but I'd say they were common in the early 1900s as well as parks and neighborhoods in Fresno that were developed around that time have a lot of large edulis.

Zero is too low. I'm not buying this AI generated tripe and it's misleading. Go to the freeze damage data on this website and look up the Washingtonia threads to get a real world idea of how low they can really go. I would almost bet on filifera to go lower than robusta; but I wouldn't know first hand. I enjoy both species in OTHER peoples' yards. I'm sorry if I've offended tripe.

Cycas Thourasii - New Flush

Got this from @Steve in Florida last year, so happy to see it flowering already!

Queen palms have been in cultivation for a long time, and so there's a lot of variability to them. Around town here, some of the older ones are very thin trunked and quite graceful looking. Most of the one's I've grown very robust, with heavy trunks. Until I had it removed a couple years ago, I had one very similar looking to the one on the left. I would always joke that it was trying to look like an Attalea, with much more upright, less plumose leaves. As far as the "abreojos" variety, that original story was nonsense as far as I could tell; it was just another unusual, variable queen that had been grown from seed. I know of none that were anything but, well, variable in their appearance.

From a different angle the differences are more clear

And in 2023. Slow trunk growth but it kept it’s special features

That would be correct.. A family member attended the school thru 8th grade and we'd attended church there until ..94-ish. While noticing palms more casually than really knowing individual species ..outside the usual Washingtonia, Queens, and Canary Island Dates planted all over town, that specific palm always stood out as something that had to be uncommon since i never noticed anything else like it anywhere else.. Not sure why it was removed, but apparently occurred in the late 90s ( ..Noticed it had been removed after that timeframe anyway ) ..around the same time a couple large Corymbia ficifolia, on the Winchester Blvd facing side of the Church were taken out. Think the Saucer Magnolia is still there and noticed someone planted two Cassia leptophylla on the grounds as well. What's funny is i'd really never noticed any of the palms planted in the courtyard by the Gym until years later, despite lots of time spent in that same courtyard during Youth group and other church - related events. Very curious who planted them all.. ..If it is / was any of the people we known.

You do get down to San Jose, these, at my old church in Campbell, are some of the largest i've seen on my side of town. No clue when they were planted but thinking sometime in the late 80s / early 90s when the courtyard was redesigned. At one time, there was ..what i still believe was a Jubaeopsis planted in front of the Gym, just to the right of where the B. edulis in shot #1 is located.. I say that only because it had a similar look, was not tall / produced offsets. and the fruit / seeds on it did not resemble anything close to either a Pindo, Queen, King, or Phoenix sp.. Me and some of my friends at the time used pelt one another w/ the seeds, lol. Was yanked unfortunately before i could get pictures of it. There are a few more on the back side of the courtyard, behind the specimens in street view shot #2. Some others near the largest Majesty in my old neighborhood in the Princeton Plaza area of New Alamden / Branham..

Here's a nice leaner in West Oakland.

Mine is a baby at 25 years old , planted in 1998. Just a wee one! I love the way the trunk adapted to the slope. Harry

Another specimen