My Pritchardia Collection

[MattyB]

I just love the look of Pritchardia. Enough blabbering already, let's look at some pics!

[MattyB]

Pritchardia Schattaueri

This has been a slow grower for me, and it had trouble with the full, all day inland sun at first. I planted it in very shallow soil, right on rock, so I'm sure that didn't help. Now that it's been in the ground for about 4-5 years and the canopy is filling in around it, the newer leaves are looking a lot healthier.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia hardyi

Recognizable by its peachy coloration on the petioles, flat leaf, and silvery undersides, P. hardyi is one of my favorites. It's slow growing.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia forbesiana

This is a fast growing palm with large leaves. It's leaflets are deeply divided but at this young age is not pendulous yet. Undersides are pretty much solid green (no lepidida, those silver or white scales)

[MattyB]

Pritchardia beccariana #1

This is the big mama! It's been very fast growing and is obviously very large. This palm is bigger than my largest Bizmarckia. It's been flowering for the last two years and I really want to know if this is in fact beccariana, but it's been suffering from a potassium deficiency so I've been cutting the flowers off to try and conserve nutrients.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia beccariana #2

This palm has leaves more like I've read P. beccariana should have, meaning that it's much less divided than the previously pictured palm. It doesn't like a lot of sun which is also different than the previous palm. So I'd say this palm is most likely a real P. beccariana. But what was that other monster? I don't know.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia sp. 'blue moon'

I don't even know what this is. It's not allow out to play yet.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia 'kaale minima'

What the heck does that mean? That's not even a real name as far as I know. But I got it because it had very brown petioles and some serious fuzz on the undersides so I thought it looked interesting.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia minor

This palm was grown from seed collected by Paul at a dude named Kim's house in Clairemont area of San Diego. It's been slow growing and is finally starting to show that nice silvery underside that minor is known for.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia viscosa (Ron Lawyer)

There's debate about whether or not this is actually P. viscosa. It's a little different than my P. minor so I don't know what else it may be. What do you think?

[MattyB]

Pritchardia martii #1

Hey there little buddy! Matt in SD grew this from seed collected at Dennis Willoughby's house.

[MattyB]

Pritchardia martii #2

I have to be honest, I'm a little bummed about this plant because it doesn't have that super flat leaf that P. martii is known for. Oh well, it's still a nice palm. There's a bunch of different variations in P. martii so I guess this is one of them. I was speculating that this might also be P. bakerii. Not sure. The seed was in the little 4" pot when I got it and it was huge, consistent with P. martii. It's been a steady grower.

[MattyB]

I also planted a Tahina in this area just to mess with the Pritchardia heads when one day it explodes out above them.

I think that's it. Whatdayathink? Anyone know how to get these things to not have K deficiency? That's a hard one.

[Stevetoad]

awesome as always Mr.B that huge p. becarywhateveritis is still one of my favorite palms. AWESOME!

[Pedro 65]

Wow, thats a mighty collection of Pritchardias, and "very healthy" , they sure love your climate, here the leaves are dotted all over with yellow, , and the collection in Sydney to me looks dull as hell, yours are damn beautiful, "great stuff",. you should be "very proud", thanks for showing em all. Pete

[dalmatiansoap]

Wow!

[Lowey]

Great collection Matty, Pritchardia are one of my favorites and they mostly look great grown in my area but some of yours are fantastic

[richnorm]

Yeah my martii is wavy too (at that stage anyaway) so bought more seed. Much as I love beccariana I think minor is the best looking as it has none of that spotting and tatty leaf tips that seem to be present even in the tropics. Super wind tolerant too. There's a huge Waeleileana (spelling!) here that's outgrowing a neighbouring bangalow and looks amazing. Hoping to get one of it's offspring.

[akamu]

Your palm voodoo is definetly working matt palms even look bigger than when I came over to hang out with tassie troy when he visited. I got a P. martii from Kevin weaver that he said was the true form and he got the seed in Hawaii. So confusing this species like you said .Mine is still to small to tell but there is definetly some variance in these palms ARRGH what am I grow'n

[neoflora]

Matty, I have a P. forbesiana from the type plant on Maui. It has a golden underside. Similar to P. Arecina.

[LJG]

Didn't a bunch of plants once seperate get grouped into Martii? Maybe that's the difference people are seeing. I have a Martiodies from seed of Darians palm and it is different then the Martii's I have seen too.

[sarasota alex]

Looking good!

[colin Peters]

Super nice, the colors on the haryi are really cool. Hope that one really is viscosa. All the others look really healthy.

P. schattaueri in growing at Koko Head Crater Botanical garden, and it is hot and dry there. Not sure how much t

they irrigate, but they look really healthy. i know its native habitat is towards the south Kona region, up on the Mt. so

maybe more wet, but it does do well in the Honolulu area also.

Hopefully within a few months the bakeri seeds I put wire boxes

around will be ripe. Great growing, you put us to shame over here.

aloha

[MattyB]

Ron, all the literature says P. forbesiana has green undersides. You must have another P. arecina instead.

[MattyB]

Len, you nailed it. The P. martii at Ventura College was originally labled P. rockiana if I remember correctly and boy was that a nice palm.

[SanDimas]

Nice collection MattyB.

I sure would like one of

those beccariana as well.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Pritchardia beccariana #1

This is the big mama! It's been very fast growing and is obviously very large. This palm is bigger than my largest Bizmarckia. It's been flowering for the last two years and I really want to know if this is in fact beccariana, but it's been suffering from a potassium deficiency so I've been cutting the flowers off to try and conserve nutrients.

I love the pritchardia, I am surprised I didn't see munroi in your pics, you must have one. I am also curious as to how each do in terms of exposure - sun and frost. I also grow p. remota, p. munroi, p. hildebrandii, p. minor and recently added p. hildebrandii sp. minor as well as p. beccariana from Floribunda.

The islands mostly have acidic soil, more so on the windward side. Most pritchardia seem pH insensitive, but perhaps p. beccariana prefers a little acid. So iron sulfate or aluminum sulfate might have a positive impact so you can let that giant bloom and give the rest of us some seeds.

[SanDimas]

Theeere yaaa go...

Well said Dr. Axel.

Sounds like a prescription of Viagra sulfate is in order.

[Kostas]

Looking awesome Matty!!! You got some really nice species and specimen there

[stygiana]

Thanks a lot Matty.

Especially after Troy's thread about your garden, it's perfect!

All these plants look healthy and happy.

One question please: What is the species on the second and third photos in Troy's post n°12?

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/38224-matty-bradfords-garden-troys-15th-garden-visit/

This Pritchardia is a most elegant mademoiselle.

I fell in love!!!

[DoomsDave]

Pritchardia beccariana #1

This is the big mama! It's been very fast growing and is obviously very large. This palm is bigger than my largest Bizmarckia. It's been flowering for the last two years and I really want to know if this is in fact beccariana, but it's been suffering from a potassium deficiency so I've been cutting the flowers off to try and conserve nutrients.

WHOA!

"potassium deficiency"?? Maybe Arnold has a steroid deficiency . . . . .

[MattyB]

Thanks a lot Matty.

Especially after Troy's thread about your garden, it's perfect!

All these plants look healthy and happy.

One question please: What is the species on the second and third photos in Troy's post n°12?

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/38224-matty-bradfords-garden-troys-15th-garden-visit/

This Pritchardia is a most elegant mademoiselle.

I fell in love!!!

That's the P. forbesiana

[rprimbs]

Pritchardia beccariana #1

This is the big mama! It's been very fast growing and is obviously very large. This palm is bigger than my largest Bizmarckia. It's been flowering for the last two years and I really want to know if this is in fact beccariana, but it's been suffering from a potassium deficiency so I've been cutting the flowers off to try and conserve nutrients.

That is cool! Do you have any extra seeds?

[Cindy Adair]

Exquisite collection! My few tiny ones with one or two strap leaves would be embarrassed to be in their company. Congratulations!

[mike in kurtistown]

Ah, my chance to discuss one of my favorite genera. First, Pritchardia martii. The following pictures are of mine planted near the crest of a hill on my hillside property in full (Hilo) sun. Planted July-August 2009. Seeds collected in Lyon Arboretum, Oahu, from palms labeled P. martii.

One picture clearly shows the silver-bronze tomentum on the leaf underside. Both shows that the leaves have developed a cup-shaped form and somewhat upright orientation. These features could be a response to windy conditions. Windward Big Island is normally breezy, and windstorms with gusts to 20 mph or more are not uncommon.

[mike in kurtistown]

Now, about Pritchardia beccariana: The following picture was taken at the Hilo Arboretum in April 2007. These trees are protected from the wind and receivepartial shading by tall palms of other species that surround them.

Here's one of mine, planted July-Aug 2009 in open sun. Seeds from trees planted in Liholiho Park in downtown Hilo by the Outdoor Circle, said trees from the garden of Donn Carlsmith. I have observed that this species is often planted in locations where they are crowded, so I planted my three in very open locations. It is also windy, and there is no protection from easterly windstorms. What I now realize is that strong winds tend to tear up the older leaves, as is obvious here. P. beccariana is a palm of the forest that becomes emergent. Note that the newer leaves are nearly vertical.

Here are a couple pics of a very old and much studied P. beccariana in the Ola'a Tract near Volcano on the Big Island. Pictures taken in March 2006. Note the same kind of stiff leaves with stiff leaflets (not very much division).

If one travels up the Kulani Road towards the old prison, old P. beccarianas can be seen along the road, and even nicer ones if one goes off the road on some of the hunting trails. Here are a couple of pics taken in May 2007, again showing the stiff new leaves without much division.

Hodel says in his book that P. beccariana is the only Hawaiian Pritchardia that might be mistaken for P. pacifica. There are many plantings of trees labeled P. beccariana in east Hawaii that have very divided leaves with pendant leaflets. I don't think they are P. beccariana.

[Zeeth]

Bump. Great pics Matt and Mike! P. beccariana is a species that I'm becoming really interested in, so this was a nice thread! I'd like to know eventually if Matt's big palm turns out to be beccariana or something else!

[Sabal Steve]

I picked up a small p. napalenease (spelled something like that...) The orher day up on o side. Of course I have nowhere to put it...

[Sabal Steve]

I picked up a small p. napalenease (spelled something like that...) The orher day up on o side. Of course I have nowhere to put it...

P.napaliensis

[SanDimas]

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