Hi to everyone, this is my first post here but I've been reading the forum for a while. I just wanted to show you some pics of my little C. tuerckheimii, one and half year old. Always kept indoor in my office in Paris.

Cheers,

Filo

Ad here they were just 1 month old

welcome to the forum! that chamy looks perfect!!! what are you doing to it?

Welcome. Your Cham tuerck is awesome. You are doing something very right.

very beautiful !

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hello and please: you're Italian?

regards

Hi everyone, thanks for appreciating my little ones. I love this little palms, they are decorative and charming from the first leaf, even the seedling are cute IMHO.

I water them regularly with deionized water. I guess that this is the trick for this and many other plants from the rain forest.

Yes I'm Italian.

Cheers

Filo

Beautiful palms.

I need some!

Welcome.

That is one phrase I never envisioned seeing here..."my office in Paris".

Wow those are the best looking Potato Chip palms I have seen! Does that pot have several plants or is that just 1 palm that developed suckers?

Even the color of the leaves are unusually bright and fresh. I guess these palms do very well indoors.

Congratulations on your success with this challenging species and welcome to palm talk.

Filo:

Beautifully grown palms.

Someone really needs to take a critical look at the population of Chamaedorea cf. tuerkheimii that bled into the commercial seed trade - purportedly from México - several years back. These plants, along with others that I have seen from presumably the same source, look different enought from classic ex-Veracruz, Oaxacan and Chiapan C. tuerckheimii that they definitely warrant a closer look. To wit, concolorous leaves with very deeply bifid apices, very distinctly-serrated leaf margins, dense canopy in youth, etc. I also find it noteworthy that this taxon/ecotype, like the visually similar C. frondosa from NE Honduras, is apparently very easy to manage in broader cultivation.

Those interested in variability in C. tuerckheimii should also see the big Donald Hodel article on chamaedoreas in general in the most recent issue of "The Palm Journal" where he shows a very nice in situ photo of an unusual violet-blue on green-leafed Honduran plant, presumably from Depto. Copán. As far as I know, the lowland Guatemalan plants currently known from the eastern parts of the Dept. of Izabal do not show this striking center stripe, but rather look nearly identical to the eastern México material. However, given proximity, it is to be expected that this showy Honduran ecotype also occurs in Guatemala in the Sierra del Merendón.

I have five perfectly healthy, flowering sized, seed-grown tuercks of the Guatemalan highland blue form growing in a well-lit, centrally-heated apt in the San Francisco Bay Area, so clearly they can be grown indoors if one is informed and careful with culture and dodges spider mites.

J

Filo, a big welcome from Costa Rica! What a beautiful healthy C. tuerckheimii you've got

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