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Questions about Chamaedorea metallica - split leaf

By marcus
January 27, 2009 in DISCUSSING PALM TREES WORLDWIDE

https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/16379-questions-about-chamaedorea-metallica-split-leaf/

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Pal Meir

Posted August 30, 2015

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Posted August 30, 2015

It is an old thread, but I would like to contribute my own observations which I had made between 1982 and 2008 with Chamaedorea metallica with split leaves.

I had crossed Ch. metallica "pinnata" several times (first in 1992) and the result was always 100% pinnate. Mostly the next generation had more pinnae than the parents. The phenomenon of split leaves was already mentioned in Hodel’s monography on Chamaedorea Palms (1992) as normal ("pinnae 3 to 8 on each side of rachis").

Hodel 1992: 43