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A couple of nice trays of sabinara magnifica anyone!

Nineteen years ago I crossed my fat trunking Butia eriospatha with Jubaea chilensis. I have several of this palms growing here. A few were imported into England also. Yesterday I cleaned the trunk of one of this two. It are beasts! How you call the hybrid of a Butia eriospatha x Jubaea?

these hybrids can be variable, your alberto seems to follow the beastly upright jubaea appearance more than the butia. There is a quite a difference between the BxJ and the JxB from what Ive seen. Yours doesnt have the heavily recurved leaves of the butia mother, its upright, and it has the fattie trunk more like a jubaea. F1 hybrids can vary quite a bit, mules can be more uprright (butia) or weeping(syagrus). Here is my B x J, not sure what subspecies of butia, I got from jungle music. Here is my (BxJ)xJ, with more jubaea blood, from patrick shaeffer Yours looks more like the 2nd one, more jubaea genetic influence. Both are hating the 85-88F weather and grow slowly waiting for winter to green up and speed up. Growth of these palms is probably 2x as fast in winter here with our 55F/75F typical average lows/ highs.

Thanks I planted quite a few many years ago. Yes one day there will be lots of hookeri seeds. I have grown a lot of Chambeyronia before from seed and they display some red and some green new leaves but most of them eventually get the red leaf . Not a lot of new leaves at the moment but there are a lot spears so soon there will be that red flame in the garden again.

It's just the outer trunk. When I scraped a piece away the fiber underneath showed but nothing soft. I still have a little bleeding...same spots as before. Nothing oozing but it looks a little wet on the quarter sized spots at times. Crown in recovery mode but doing OK.

And I certainly know the name of this top Australian palm, the grand old lacospadix Australis single trunk var. This one gets a nice new liver colour leaf.

That palm we all can never pronounce, packed full of seeds! Two nice ones in the garden.

Shaved Old Man:

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

Verschaffeltia growing nicely, it is very slow growing for me.

A few hookeri floating around the garden . All are 27 years old and they are starting to flower, no seeds yet, but one day for sure seeds with this many in the garden.

I hope that these kingdoms you managed to cross will form a hybrid of interest. And very likely, when none of us are here anymore, send me all the seeds to Chile. More than a monster or dinosaur, it's a masterpiece of the palm grower. Just make sure it maintains its impressive size and harmonious beauty, which it will bestow upon humankind. Jubutia erios

The flushing pup on this Encephalartos trispinosis almost gets lost among the leaves of the main caudex.

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, understory New Guinea rainforest palm. Tim

This little beauty Pinanga disticha complete leaf, definitely can’t wait to get this one in the ground!

Jubuteasaurus albertoii

I would call it beefy. It claims the palm descriptor 'robust' all to itself. I like rich's name Wooly Wine Wonder Palm along with any binomial or abbreviation.... Butia eriospatha × Jubaea chilensis 'Alberto' ×Butiajubaea 'Alberto' Alberto's Jubutia or BuJube Alberto's Brazilian Giant The Thing that Ate Alberto's Yard... Ryan

A nice looking palm the dwarf variety. They will never flower, the only way of propagating them is by cutting them up. This one you would get 4 clumps if you attacked it with a reciprocal saw. I might have to do just that!

Polyandrococus caudescens

Zamia pseudoparasitica has grown well over the last few years. Tim

Acquired from Floribunda and planted January 2019, this palm is looking really lovely at the moment. It has always been a very spiny thing, but yesterday I did a double take -- it's as smooth as a fine suede jacket! And such color! No evidence of the "rubra" (red) for which it is named, but beautiful all the same. Still young, and has only a few spines on one side of the trunk. I'm interested to see yours -- please share photos if you are growing this species.

Good news hopefully!😃 I just observed a flowerstalk appearing on one of the inflorescences.

Here's a rousselii at same age

This is great news. I'm seeing lots in Orlando getting some green. My first foxtail spear only opened one third, all green. My second opened two thirds. The newest spear is pushing fast and seems normal. My foxtail is very large and fat...in ground for about 8 years. This pic was from March 30. The open one was the first and the spear is the one that opened 2/3.

Seed has been shared all over Australia now, you will find the palm seedlings on Ebay etc and at the Pacsoa showing the future, Some sold recently as red tomentum form, red form, etc Gave seed to online sellers this week, some one near you in Australia has been sent seed over the last few years when it has produced them happy to have been able to produce enough to share out PS i do not sell seed regards Colin

I was looking through old photos for other reasons and found this photo of an Acanthohpoenix rubra seedling from 2016 - this would have been from the batch that become the in ground photos I posted before. I'll get a photo of similar sized rousselii seedlings when I get home tonight, there are differences.

A few pics from the far north coast of NSW. Apart from South West Rocks, these could be the most southerly. Covering Brunswick Heads to Yamba.

I remember seeing pictures on this forum of one in Forster which is south of Port Macquarie.

The first is definitely correct, A purpurea. The remaining ones I’m not sure anyone is going to be able to definitively confirm for you; I don’t think there’s really any differentiating features between A myolensis, maxima and tuckeri (and alexandrae) at that size.

An old photo of my parajubaea in the snow in 2018.

Borassodendron borneense, still growing.

Sabinara magnifica, nenga banaensis and a Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, looking pretty for a subtropical climate.

I have lots of new flushes going right now! With the summer like weather we have been having here in So Cal the plants think its like May or June. Here are just a few of the plants I have flushing right now. This Horridus is a very basic leaf form but one of my bluest. Pics were taken after a morning rain shower so looked a little less blue than normal.

Jubea the Hutt? 😜 or Jubea the But (pronounced like the first syllable of Butia)?

The next step in this flush. It clearly has a tilt toward the southwest sky, which is where it gets the fullest sun exposure.

Well I got up this morning to thick fog and mist and about 16C with 100% RH. The fog didn’t lift until around 9.30am but it just reminded me of a cloud forest environment especially when I looked at my Parajubaeas which come from the Andes. So I took some pics. The trees were also dropping a lot of condensed water like rain in the rainforest area whenever the slightest breeze went through. I’m really happy that the trees were acting like rainforest trees. Really beautiful morning. Now in the afternoon it’s about 26C and very humid.

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. .

We had a cold February and most have lost their leaves. I have seen late April but this year may be late. Will be interesting!

I sometimes have that too; put some dry red wine in the mushrooms above. But I like sangria because I like sangria.

What would you have?

A nice splash of sangria.

Everyone share your recipes here! Or favorite things to eat drink and share. And palm pictures if possible. A feast in every sense.

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?

That is some kind of beautiful! Tim

Damn that thing is beautiful. More than I deserve. Sprouting seeds maybe sell the babies.

Yes

It’s worth the risks!

It’s also just this side of lethal. The dead leaf that fell would make a wicked conk on the noggin. Conan and waste cart for scale.