Tropical Plant ID

[pg6922]

Hey Yall,

I dont even know what to type into google for this one. "Large leafed plant" is a little too vague. So, anyone know what this is. It was chopped down at one time and what you see is what came back. The stump was about 10 inches in diameter. Also, this was on a vacant lot in East Ft Myers,Fl.

Thanks,

PG

[rozpalm]

Coccoloba pubescens would be my guess.

[pg6922]

Coccoloba pubescens would be my guess.

Thats it! Thank you very much. It appears it can be grown from a cutting so we will see how my cuttings take. I cannot get over how large the leaves are. the pics dont do it justice.

[Jeff Searle]

Coccoloba pubescens would be my guess.

That's a great guess! This is a really neat plant to grow. Also, the C. rugosa is equally as cool with it's large,wavy, very thick texture leaves. T do air layers on mine. That's a valuable plant, dig it and give it a new home, if it's been abandoned. Nice find....

[Moose]

Coccoloba pubescens would be my guess.

That's a great guess! This is a really neat plant to grow. Also, the C. rugosa is equally as cool with it's large,wavy, very thick texture leaves. T do air layers on mine. That's a valuable plant, dig it and give it a new home, if it's been abandoned. Nice find....

Also tropical, nice to see it survived the winter. I saw them while visiting the Santo Domingo Zoo during the 2006 Dominican Republic Biennel! They are valuable like Jeff says, go with an air layer, don't waste your time with a cutting, low succes rate with a cutting.

[BeerPlant]

Cool! Could believe how large that one was - check this googled link - http://www.southeastgrowers.com/images/Picture%20634%20(2).jpg

[BeerPlant]

Couldn't that is...

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Cool! Could believe how large that one was - check this googled link - http://www.southeastgrowers.com/images/Picture%20634%20(2).jpg

Wow! SE Growers really has a lot of big rare stuff. They market to hotels and shopping malls that can use big rare specimens. If the one PG found was 10" across the stump, it had to be a really big tree.

[www.dadluvsu.com]

Hwo did I miss that out there at SE? WOWZ!

[rozpalm]

Southeast Growers is an amazing place. I bought a few specimen trees from them a while back. They have so many full grown rare palms in pots that its mind blowing walking through the massive shade-houses looking at them. There is nothing quite like seeing a Livistona rotundifolia w/ 25' of clear trunk in a pot. They also grow for many of the botanical gardens and ship globally and man can they package a tree for shipping. Richard Kern, the owner is really friendly and loves to talk about plants. Definitely worth a tour if you're in Palm Beach County.

[pg6922]

Coccoloba pubescens would be my guess.

That's a great guess! This is a really neat plant to grow. Also, the C. rugosa is equally as cool with it's large,wavy, very thick texture leaves. T do air layers on mine. That's a valuable plant, dig it and give it a new home, if it's been abandoned. Nice find....

Hey Jeff,

I have a power spade so digging it is no problem. How much of a root ball should I take for a successful transplant.

[virtualpalm]

Cool! Could believe how large that one was - check this googled link - http://www.southeastgrowers.com/images/Picture%20634%20(2).jpg

Bill, we have some about half the size of the one in that photo at our nursery in south Miami-Dade (Signature Trees & Palms), as well as many smaller ones. This past winter they lost almost all of their leaves during the coldest nights and left the ground cloth in the shade house covered with plate-sized leaves.

Jody

[pg6922]

Thanks for all the feedback yall. I will say that the wood on this tree is much harder than I expected. It will make a Machete ping! The power spade I had even had trouble working through the roots. Needless to say it was not as easy a transplant as I had imagined. The hard part was getting it home in the back of my truck and still holding together with the monster leaves. One of the tall shoots did partially snap so I tried a splint to see if it will hold on. Its got plenty of new growth at the stump but I would like the tall shoots to make it. I drenched it with Fertilome root stimulator so hopefully this will do the trick. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Patrick

[rozpalm]

If that tree makes it you are going to have a spectacular tree in your garden. The C.rugosa that Jeff mentioned is a really cool tree too with big leaves and awesome red flower spikes.

[BS Man about Palms]

Cool Beans!

[junglegalfla]

I want one! What a fantastic find!!

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Big leaves = Big Rake.....just sayin'........

[bubba]

pg/Patrick, Please find a more recent shot of a formerly bronzed C. pubescens:

[pg6922]

pg/Patrick, Please find a more recent shot of a formerly bronzed C. pubescens:

Hey Bubba, that's a really nice looking C pubescens. Where is that located? And, am I suppose to do a forum search for this photo? BTW, a majority of the leaves on my transplanted tree have turned brown but the top leaves still have green and the growth buds are still green. So, fingers still crossed.

PG

[bubba]

pgPatrick, Sorry about that. It is in a garden area at a Church here in Palm Beach, Fl. It was bronzed up pretty good after our cold in Jan. but has made a come back like yours has.