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The World's Most Tropical Palm

AggiePalms

By AggiePalms
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AggiePalms Rising Star

AggiePalms

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OK folks, I need you to identify the apparently most tropical palm in the world. This is, I hope, humorously misguided.

:lol:

Situation: I am currently working part time at a Big Box store, and a customer arrived needing a heater. Or a braincell, I'm not sure which. Heater is for her polycarbonate greenhouse (supposedly with a metal roof???), which is apparently 480 square feet. She supposedly turned down an offer from her family for a 6000 square foot greenhouse. Right, I'm believing this story. Anyway, she needed a small table top electric heater for her greenhouse, so it would keep the ambient temperature at least 80 degrees during the coldest day of the winter (lows should be mid-20's here), or 55 degrees above outdoor temperature. Using one table top electric heater...

Anyway, Palm question: She says she needs to keep the temp at 80+ degrees, because she has a rainforest palm tree (unnamed) that will die if the temperature ever gets down to 70. Yes, 70. Cyrtostachys rendi can die in the upper 40's as I have unfortunately learned, but 70??? I've never been in a rain forest that stays above 70 every minute of every year.

So, could you please either identify this mythical palm that none of us own, OR give me permission to sell her a small table top heater for her family's 6000 square foot greenhouse?

Maybe we should all chip in and buy her a palm greenhouse in Greenland to be heated by a toaster oven.

:drool:

Gig 'Em Ags!

 

David '88

BS Man about Palms Grand Master

BS Man about Palms

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Take a picture of her so we can consider the source........

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

AggiePalms Rising Star

AggiePalms

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A picture of the lady...well, let's put it this way: I've photographed many beautiful palms, any of which would be much more beautiful than this "palm" lady. Or, you can imagine the sort of woman who is the source of this story, I don't want to break the camera!

Gig 'Em Ags!

 

David '88

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BS Man about Palms

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Thats what I figured...did she have a lot of old plastic grocery bags with her?

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

epicure3 Grand Master

epicure3

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Maybe she's germinating some tropical palm seeds of some sort. Of course, she may also have bought a double Butia on eBay for $25k.

Coastal San Diego, California

Z10b

Dry summer subtropical/Mediterranean

warm summer/mild winter

Wai`anae Steve Veteran

Wai`anae Steve

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Maybe she has a coconut and then 65 is the number to fear.

Wai`anae Steve-------www.waianaecrider.com
Living in Paradise, Leeward O`ahu, Hawai`i, USA
Temperature range yearly from say 95 to 62 degrees F
Only 3 hurricanes in the past 51 years and no damage. No floods where I am, No tornados, No earthquakes
No moles, squirrels, chipmunks, deer, etc. Just the neighbors "wild" chickens

aussiearoids Grand Master

aussiearoids

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Itaya amicorum is a bit tender , got the perfect spot for my little seedling :mrlooney:

Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

AggiePalms Rising Star

AggiePalms

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Now that you mention it...she did have too many plastic grocery bags. And she did mention buying several dozen triple Butia on Ebay for half a million each. Well, ok, even she isn't that weird. But a metal top on her greenhouse, where she supposedly grows tropical fruit trees on a 16 ft spacing...inside the 480 square foot greenhouse???

And I thought we were all weird for wanting as many zone pushing palms as possible!

Gig 'Em Ags!

 

David '88

AggiePalms Rising Star

AggiePalms

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Steve, I would agree about the coconut...except she implied that if the temperature ever got below 70 the palm would die basically instantly. I have the perfect place for your Itaya, Aussieroids...well maybe not perfect but I would love to try it!

Gig 'Em Ags!

 

David '88

Trópico Grand Master

Trópico

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How about a portable battery operated heater for a circus tent? Cause that's a freak show I don't want to miss!

Frank

 

Zone 9b pine flatlands

humid/hot summers; dry/cool winters

with yearly freezes

joe_OC Grand Master

joe_OC

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How about helping her identify the palm and directing her to join Palmtalk? Seems she is passionate about her palm and just needs help...

Huntington Beach, CA

USDA Zone 10a/10b

Sunset Zone 24

AggiePalms Rising Star

AggiePalms

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How about helping her identify the palm and directing her to join Palmtalk? Seems she is passionate about her palm and just needs help...

Very definitely! I directed her to the SE Palm Society and the local bamboo/palm garden. I couldn't do a lot more; you can't be overly friendly with a first time customer. I think she is interested and will learn. And I sent her to an online source for large scale greenhouses and heaters, for professional use. I told her to come back if she needed help.

Gig 'Em Ags!

 

David '88

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