What is the Ultimate palm?

[tropicbreeze]

Jose, I don't think they'll become a major industry here. Our climate is equatorial savanna, I think they need rainfall spread throughout the whole year. My soil is particularly poor, lateritic, doesn't hold moisture, and becomes waterlogged during the wet season. They still seem to do reasonably well here, with irrigation during the dry season. I'll keep the larger 3 but seedlings get pulled out (run out of people to give them away to). Well, they're better for epiphytes than my Cyrtostachys renda are.

[JakeK]

What is the ultimate palm? I guess for me that is the palm that is the right fit where it is needed. You could probably have multiple ultimate palms depending on your situation.

[Jose Maria]

Tropicbreeze:

With irrigation they do fine and have the highest yields , ( from production records in Guatemala). But the limiting factor in Australia must be the labour costs(compared to palmoil producing countries).

Waterlogged soil is certainly to be avoided, some drainage, etc... Dry spells are not nearly as bad for oilpalm.

Where I live there is, besides oilpalm, a lot of Rambutan production and as far as I know Northern Territory is also a producer.

Here there is a problem with monkeys ( protected ) eating the fruits, and in NT seems to be parrots that damage rambutan plantations.

Apparently climates and soils are not that different after all.

[Z4Devil]

Acanthophoenix & Lytocaryum, what else?