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Name this palm game

Ken Johnson
Ken Johnson
in DISCUSSING PALM TREES WORLDWIDE

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genus is correct

I DIG PALMS

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Clinostigma savoryanum?

YEP!
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I was looking at some old posts today and found this. Here is a new old one... :indifferent:

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Anybody knows what kind of palm is this?

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Looks like Beccariophoenix madagascariensis.

Anybody knows what kind of palm is this?

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Beccariophoneix fenestralis

Keith 

Tampa, Florida (9b/10a) and Freiburg, Germany (8a).
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Anybody knows what kind of palm is this?

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Beccariophoneix fenestralis

I like Zeeth's answer and I am pretty sure that is not in northern California.

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Thanks to all who helped!Indeed Ken this certain palm is photographed in Jupiter Fla.looking around the area, this palm tricked me for a cocos nucifera! until closely inspecting the trimmed leaf sheaths.I was told it was a v.fenestralis though.Zeeth is correct!

had me fooled

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

I was looking at some old posts today and found this. Here is a new old one... :indifferent:

That's some sort of coccosoid palm... Ken doesn't grow queens so maybe Attalea? If not, some sort of Syagrus--where in the ballpark am I, Mr. Johnson?
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I was looking at some old posts today and found this. Here is a new old one... :indifferent:

That's some sort of coccosoid palm... Ken doesn't grow queens so maybe Attalea? If not, some sort of Syagrus--where in the ballpark am I, Mr. Johnson?

Oh yes Andrew you are close. It's a syagrus...old...new...is hint.

I DIG PALMS

Call me anytime to chat about transplanting palms.

305-345-8918

https://www.facebook...KenJohnsonPalms

I was looking at some old posts today and found this. Here is a new old one... :indifferent:

That's some sort of coccosoid palm... Ken doesn't grow queens so maybe Attalea? If not, some sort of Syagrus--where in the ballpark am I, Mr. Johnson?

Oh yes Andrew you are close. It's a syagrus...old...new...is hint.

Is that your Syagrus amara?

Keith 

Tampa, Florida (9b/10a) and Freiburg, Germany (8a).
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I was looking at some old posts today and found this. Here is a new old one... :indifferent:

That's some sort of coccosoid palm... Ken doesn't grow queens so maybe Attalea? If not, some sort of Syagrus--where in the ballpark am I, Mr. Johnson?

Oh yes Andrew you are close. It's a syagrus...old...new...is hint.

Is that your Syagrus amara?

It was mine....next?

I DIG PALMS

Call me anytime to chat about transplanting palms.

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Ok, my turn to play--who can guess this one???

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Ok, my turn to play--who can guess this one???

Some sort of Raphia?

Keith 

Tampa, Florida (9b/10a) and Freiburg, Germany (8a).

Coccothrinax crinita

John Case

Brentwood CA

Owner and curator of Hana Keu Garden

USDA Zone 9b more or less, Sunset Zone 14 in winter 9 in summer

"Its always exciting the first time you save the world. Its a real thrill!"

Arenga pinnata?

Ok, my turn to play--who can guess this one???

Aphandra natalia?

All wrong guesses. Not even in the right genus. Alex got the right continent...

Parajubaea cocoides?

Nope.

This is turning out to be harder than I thought it would be for you guys... another hint: this palm is at MBC and if you were at the bieenial, you probably saw it(Dr. Noblick mentioned it on my tour). One of my favorites for the genus--wait was that two hints?..

Parajubaea torallyi?

or possibly sunkha

Pando--those palms could not live at MBC.

ok, trying once more:

Some sort of Colpothrinax? cookii?

This is turning out to be harder than I thought it would be for you guys... another hint: this palm is at MBC and if you were at the bieenial, you probably saw it(Dr. Noblick mentioned it on my tour). One of my favorites for the genus--wait was that two hints?..

Andrew from the hints above I take it that it's a Syagrus. Possibly Attalea. Which one - no idea

Not a Syagrus...

Has everyone given up on this easy one?

Attalea speciosa?

Lived in Cape Coral, Miami, Orlando and St. Petersburg Florida.

No cigar...
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Ok, my turn to play--who can guess this one???

I looked real close at this photo and saw PEOPLE! Who are those people? Must be a meeting at a famous garden in South Florida.

Just trying to get some hints here.... :interesting:

I DIG PALMS

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Arenga pinnata

Mike Ricigliano

New Smyrna beach

Florida, zone 9 Beachside

I went through every picture I took at MBC during the biennial and I got nothing. I guess your tour group took a different path than mine.

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Attalea funifera. I have one in the ground too--the piassava palm.

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From the original picture I was expecting a palm MUCH larger than that. Without anything up close to give a sense of scale the only thing to look at are the people's feet in the background. Since the pic was taken down low it distorts the perspective making the people look much closer and the palm much larger than it actually is.

From the original picture I was expecting a palm MUCH larger than that. Without anything up close to give a sense of scale the only thing to look at are the people's feet in the background. Since the pic was taken down low it distorts the perspective making the people look much closer and the palm much larger than it actually is.

Well, sorry to accidentally fool you but tis the name of the game! This palm is afterall, an Attalea, so it will be as big as you expected it--in time...

At least I got the Genus name correct :)

Lived in Cape Coral, Miami, Orlando and St. Petersburg Florida.

Here should be an easy one, though they are quite rare in South Florida...

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