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Really good looking palm, Tim. Here's another Hawaii entry - my quartet, planted September 2013. Photoed from my third-story balcony.

Had a nice dinner under the Roystonea regia: grilled up some cevapcici, which are caseless Serbo-Croatian lamb and beef sausages with some mushrooms in wine and garlic sauce. And a politically incorrect beverage. .

My bottles don't start flowing until around 8 pm.

A few from the past.

At our local restaurant, they're served in a sandwich bun with side of yogurt and coarse-chopped raw onions.

Yellow Latania

The best I can capture since it is in the corner of banana collection

A rather fast growing majestic Syagrus with stiff dark green leaves. Ripe fruit is yellow and the size of golf balls. These have got to be in the 30 foot range. (10m) Always loaded with seed. Tim

Such a beautiful Syagrus Tim, my favorite. The crown has its own unique look. Yours looks amazing. Been growing one from a little seedling via Floribunda since 2006 or so. It’s grown steadily, although a bit unevenly since then. Occasionally battling nutrient, deficiencies and such. But it’s finally on its way, having developed about 3 feet of nice swollen trunk and that wonderful looking crown.

Hey all, Got invited up to Beaumont to see fellow palm geeks Randall (inland palms) & Eric (Beaumont tropics), along with Bill (Cardiff palms). Beaumont is about 2,800 feet in elevation (I believe) and we had great weather. Both have wonderful gardens. We started at Randall’s. Yes, there is a house back there. He must have 150 palms and cycads packed in there. First up, the nerds congregate. Followed by a nice, fast growing Nanorropes richiana, and an awesome Phoenix rupicola.

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, understory New Guinea rainforest palm. Tim

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but how about parajubaea in the mist in habitat?

The three each have seed on them so I will have to go back with a pair of lopers .

Here’s the recipe for the mushrooms: INGREDIENTS 1-2 pounds crimini mushrooms chopped; 1 large onion skinned and diced; 1-8 cloves of garlic peeled and grated; olive oil; 1-2pounds ripe tomatoes; salt pepper chopped basil and thyme to taste; 1 cup dry white or red wine. PROCEDURE Coat sauce pan with 1/4” of olive oil and sauté grated garlic till golden or brown; add mushrooms, tomatoes, and chopped onion; stir; add wine, salt pepper and thyme and or basil;simmer on low heat uncovered till liquid evaporates. Stuff face, along with cevapcici. Chase with some red wine. So @dalmatiansoap what do you have with cevapcici?

I agree about the swollen base but the mystery palm does not appear to have a crownshaft. I will try to get leaves but they are 25 feet in the air. My friend (owner) commented that it may just be a volunteer!

Nearby Carpoxolon macrospermum for comparison:

Hi Kyle, I do not know what causes the yellowing of specifically madagascariensis, but I do know adding lots of compost and lava rock for drainage in my clay hillside soils has helped all my palms and plants put on deeper green hues/ solid growth. The areas of the side yard I have been slower to add compost and drainage rock, has slower growing plants with more tip burn/ nutritional issues etc. I am a believer in developing the overall soil health, and dynamism to get the best looking plants which often means lots of leaf drop and litter that other folks might find less attractive etc. Every year or two I will do a big order of compost and mulch to cover the front and back yard, but this year I swapped out the organic mulch for draining 3/4 lava rock. Hope it helps with opening up my clay soils, but it also looks great against the green fronds!

Next, the best Trachycarpus princeps I’ve ever seen. Interestingly, they won’t grow very well here near the coast. But a slam dunk in the dryer air where he lives. Followed by a canopy view with a Livistona decora poking its head out. As his canopy has expanded, what used to be impossible for him to grow, is no longer out of the question. Case in point, Becarriophoenix alfredii.

Next up is a nice stout Brahea armata, followed by a great Phoenix rupicola & finally Dr. Randall explaining the characteristics of a Cycas hybrid.

Two palms on eBay one an absolute cracker of palm worth every cent; the other well iam no expert but I think it needs a proper identification!

Nice deep yellow color. I bet they smell fantastic! Royal Poinciana always bloom in May in the Arizona desert. With our extremely warm winter, the trees never went dormant and still hold most of last years leaves. Will be interesting to see if they skip blooming this year like all my stone fruits... aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Shaved Old Man:

A few shots from today. One mystery plant. When do you think we see the first blush of the Royal Poinciana this year?

Unless meal is too spicy, whereby a sangria would match perfectly, Bourgogne is the perfect beverage.

🙀oh, I am shocked!

A nice splash of sangria.

Borassodendron borneense, still growing.

This looks like kebab to me; not sausages. By coincidence I had local sausages yesterday; here in the south of Greece people add orange in the sausages! Personally, I prefer those from northern Greece which are packed with garlic and leek.

@DoomsDave great choice 😊🥂 To be clear ćevapčići are Bosnian dish in origin but they are prime dish in any grill party in this part of Europe. Honestly my favourite combo is with some cooked leafy greens with cooked potatoes and fried egg aside but most people just stuff them in pita bread add some diced red onions and some Ajvar. Balkan fast food style. In Bosnia they serve it with yogurt but here the beer is first option This video is how we prepare most veggies for side dish

I use a mixture of coco pear perlite with a good quality potting mix. most likely the problem comes from watering in summer, it has been a long hot dry summer so I have been watering quite a lot, most waterings in summer had seaweed via a Venturi. I did do a couple of Agrifos systemic fungicide waterings in combination with the seaweed. I don’t think there is any reason Agrifos has had a detrimental effect on the gausia palms. Possibly some leaching due to heavy watering. So that may have been the boron culprit at play. I have seen at work 15000 blueberrie trees burn due to boron being used, the rate for fertigating should have been 200grms not 2000grms. What an argument that was with the boss trying to blame me, in the end it came down to well that’s your handwriting to I would have used a different pen looking for an excuse to blame me. Well I had it in writing, his writing!!!

..I should add, 20ft is a general, upper- end height. exceptional specimens, like the one below, can exceed that. Puts the ..much smaller.. specimens in Glendale to shame Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, 09 / 2021: Very unique bark for a " desert " tree as well.

We have a Euromarket in town. They sell two types of the sausages; one with casing and one without. One is spicier than the other. For awhile they sold a rack of smoked veal ribs for $4.50 a pound but I haven't seen those in 6 months. Attached to the store is a small restaurant that makes the best espresso for miles around.

Yeah that was my original guess before these latest photos. I’ve only ever seen a handful of Reinhardtia p in my life but I feel like the fronds don’t match and probably the trunk girth too. The leaflets on this palm look to be held at a strong V from the rachis which was one of the things that made me think Carpoxylon. Would be really interesting to see if the old leaf bases could be removed. It certainly is strange for Carpoxylon to hold on like this but in other palms this can be climate/environmental related.

Thanks @Merlyn I don’t think there is any boron in seaweed extract that’s for sure. I might find a foliar with trace elements, I will say fertilisation is not my strong point. With so many varieties of palms mixed together and some that like this and others that don’t like that, I just stick with seaweed and rely on my soil mix.

Found a photo of the Sydney BGs Cocos October 2018. Winter of 2018 finished it off.

The tall one they planted out at the Sydney BGs died after about a couple of years. That was about 10 years ago from memory. It was planted out in May just before winter so was doomed from the start. It wouldn’t surprise me if Cocos could succeed to some extent in Sydney. Maybe not thrive or set fruit, but at least survive and look ok long term. I think there are some collector’s in the northern suburbs who have kept them alive for a while.

The tall one they planted out at the Sydney BGs died after about a couple of years. That was about 10 years ago from memory. It was planted out in May just before winter so was doomed from the start. It wouldn’t surprise me if Cocos could succeed to some extent in Sydney. Maybe not thrive or set fruit, but at least survive and look ok long term. I think there are some collector’s in the northern suburbs who have kept them alive for a while.

He was a busy host.. Notice how he seamlessly folded the mule palm into his deck!

Lastly, and a bit off-topic, Randall told me several months ago that he was relocating some palms in his backyard so that he could make a tiki hut. I’m thinking of something like maybe an outdoor barbecue/ bar area, open air, with a thatched roof. Ah no.. His attention to detail was absolutely unbelievable. Beyond words, enjoy..

There’s a few planted around Woolgoolga,Mullaway and Red rock. I tried to grow them only 10 minutes drive away further north inland but no luck. Definitely a coastal palm for this area!

@SeanK They look great! Edit: Google maps shows them still there in 2008. Wow!

It's a great hybrid, but the plant kneads moar lite.

That shot of the Plumeria against that stately Royal Palm is exquisite! You guys had a warm winter and we had a cold one! Here is one that caught my eye today:

Beautiful as usual, lucky Hawaii growers!