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red sealing wax palm

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I got a magazine in the mail the other day, Total Landscape Care. They did a short bit on palms and proper care. Basic for the people on this forum. It was written by the editor of the magazine. This magazine looks like it goes to people in the SE United States and it has featured 4 palms that they said were "popular palms" Of all the palms we can grow in the SE US, one of these 4 palms was Cyrtostachys renda. How many people can grow this plant outside in the landscape in the SE US? Anyway, this is a quote about this species:

Red Sealing Wax Palms

(Cyrtostachys renda) are not

cold tolerant. If the palm gets

too cold, a parasite wakes

up-which would normally

be dormant-and ravishes

the tree.

Can anyone tell me what she is talking about? I can guess what she might mean, but thought I would ask to see what this is about. Thanks, Tom

"...ravishes the palm." Sounds like a Grimm's fairy tale to me. :mrlooney: Probably not the most scientific description, not that I could do any better. :winkie: I imagine only a few in the warmest parts of Florida could grow C. renda, and of course in Hawaii it's viable -- not exactly SE USA, though...

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

When I get irritated I turn into a palm eating parasite

It sounds like Phytophthora i.e. - bud rot. Phytophthora nicotianae is known to affect the Lipstick Palm.

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    It sounds like Phytophthora i.e. - bud rot. Phytophthora nicotianae is known to affect the Lipstick Palm.

    Yes,this is true.Since till this day i had tried growing 3 large specimens of this palm.And all the 3 did die in the same manner.i.e slowly the side sprouts start drying up and then the main palm.

    And i live in hot wet tropical region with heavy coastal influence(high humidity zone)!

    Though its my favorite palm i have stopped buying new ones...

    Love,

    kris.

    love conquers all..

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    I have no idea whether or not this is true, but I've read the Red Sealing Wax Palm both contains and is highly vulnerable to the Gliocadium fungus which only becomes active below certain temps and takes it down, as opposed to the sensitivity to drops in temperature alone which is widely thought. Apparently the application of a fungicide prior to seasonable temperature drops preempts this condition?

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