Potted Palm Collection

[Jeff in St Pete]

I took some new photos today of some of my palms in pots. I'm trying to reduce my collection and I planted about 40 over the past year but I never seem to be able to get it down to a manageable number.

Lemurophoenix halleuxii

Caryota gigas

Dypsis ampasindavae

This was a gift and it doesn't have an id tag. Maybe it's Drymophloeus sp. "Irian Jaya"?

I remember wanting that palm and I think someone gave me one.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Pinanga copelandii

Sabal mauritiiformis

Dictyocaryum lamarckianum starting to show a little color

Iriartea deltoidea

[Jeff in St Pete]

Chamaedorea costaricana - new seedlings

Masoala kona

Lytocaryum weddellianum

Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana

[Jeff in St Pete]

This one was also a gift with no tag and I can't remember what it is.

It's starting to sucker at the base. Maybe an Arenga species?

Welfia regia

Roystonea oleracea

[Jeff in St Pete]

Clinostigma ponapense - this one is actually in the ground. It was planted about 7 or 8 months ago.

Another planted palm - new leaf on Bentinckia condapanna

The strange looking thing at the base is a dried up Cecropia leaf

Dypsis hovomantsina

Acanthophoenix rubra

[Jeff in St Pete]

Cyrtostachys elegans

C. elegans starting to clump

Marojejya darianii

Neonicholsonia watsonii

[Jeff in St Pete]

Kentiopsis magnifica

Volunteer seedling that popped up in one of my potted palms. I pulled it out and repotted it to see what it turned out to be. I'm pretty sure it's Elaeis guineensis.

Dypsis cabadae

I think this one is Parajubaea cocoides. I brought back a few seeds from Bogota, Colombia in Sept 2012.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Ptychosperma salomonense - the last time the guys came to mow the lawn and do a general yard cleanup, they took it upon themselves to go through my potted palm collection and trim off older leaves. The leaves were perfectly green and healthy and I was NOT happy. I told the supervisor that the next time they come, I will deduct money for each palm leaf they cut. That should solve the problem.

Johannesteijsmannia altifrons

Areca vestiaria maroon leaf form

Base of Areca vestiaria

Zamia sp.

New flush on Zamia

[Alicehunter2000]

Jeff, with your climate, why don't you have everything in the ground? Nice collection......PUT THEM IN THE GROUND!

[Jeff Searle]

Jeff,

You have some really great stuff waiting to go into the ground. The following palms in question.....

Drymophloeus patipi

In post #4, it could be either Arenga, I'm leaning towards Wallichia.

And Cyrtostachys elegans would be a C. sp. Hybrid

[cobra2326]

Very cool collection Jeff. And of course I love seeing others growing stuff in pots since most of my collection will forever be confined to them!

I think I remember you saying it gets fairly cool where you are? What are the average minimums (not absolute, just typical)?

[Jeff in St Pete]

Jeff, with your climate, why don't you have everything in the ground? Nice collection......PUT THEM IN THE GROUND!

David, Most of these species have already been planted in the ground. I had mutliples of each (in some cases up to 20 or 30 of a single species).

[Jeff in St Pete]

Jeff,

You have some really great stuff waiting to go into the ground. The following palms in question.....

Drymophloeus patipi

In post #4, it could be either Arenga, I'm leaning towards Wallichia.

And Cyrtostachys elegans would be a C. sp. Hybrid

Thanks Jeff for the suggestions. I'm a little confused what you mean about C. elegans. Are you saying mine is a hybrid? I have two of these and I got them from Jeff Marcus as small seedlings labeled as C. elegans.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Very cool collection Jeff. And of course I love seeing others growing stuff in pots since most of my collection will forever be confined to them!

I think I remember you saying it gets fairly cool where you are? What are the average minimums (not absolute, just typical)?

Thanks Jon. Average temps here at my location are low 80's during the day and mid 60's at night.

[Peter Pacific]

Hi Jeff, nice collection.

I have such a tough time on the beach and was wondering why I have so many with brown tips...even though they are watered and protected from the salt...but I noticed that you are quite a bit cooler than I am. Congratulations!

Peter

[Milos Srejic]

That is absolutely one of the best palm collections I have ever seen.

Regards,

Milos

[Patricia-CR]

No space? No problem. We have plenty of space for cool or hot weather palms (San Carlos). Let me know if you plan to make a palm sale!

[Mike Evans]

Nice collection Jeff. Are you waiting for another place to put them in the ground?

[Jeff in St Pete]

Thanks Milos, that's very nice of you to say.

Peter, when I lived at the beach our high temperatures were around 90 and our lows were in the high 70's with very high humidity. When I first moved to this high elevation it took me a while to adjust to the lower temperatures and lower humidity (especially at night). Not sure why you are having problems with brown tipping. I didn't have that problem when I lived at the beach, however we have a strip of rainforest between the beach and the property which probably acts as a buffer against the salt spray.

[Jeff in St Pete]

No space? No problem. We have plenty of space for cool or hot weather palms (San Carlos). Let me know if you plan to make a palm sale!

Patricia, why don't you come over next week (we have guests in the rental house this week) and I will give you that last Dictyocaryum lamarckianum that I have left in a pot. I think it would do very well at your location. I will give you a call this weekend.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Nice collection Jeff. Are you waiting for another place to put them in the ground?

Hi Mike, to be honest I don't know what I am going to do with them all. A good friend of mine who is a horticulturist was trying to get a Botanical Garden started in the Manuel Antonio/Quepos area. At one point several years ago it looked like it was going to happen so I started growing a bunch of palms to donate to the new garden. Then that project fell through. I've already donated some palms to the Else Kientzler Botanical Garden and will probably donate more to them or maybe to the Wilson Garden.

[Patricia-CR]

I will be desperately waiting for your call!! Thanks!

[palmislandRandy]

OK Jeff , it's time to set them free

[Jeff Searle]

Jeff,

The C. elegans is being sold under this name, but Jeff M. now realizes it's a hybrid. Your going to find it's a faster grower with much longer leaves and will lots of red coloring, just not quite as much as C. renda will.

[BS Man about Palms]

I'm lusting a bit after that Acanthophoenix rubra. I have the crinite doing well.... still looking for a rubra.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Jeff,

The C. elegans is being sold under this name, but Jeff M. now realizes it's a hybrid. Your going to find it's a faster grower with much longer leaves and will lots of red coloring, just not quite as much as C. renda will.

Jeff, thanks for the info although I have to admit I'm disappointed as I didn't want a hybrid. I saw photos of C. elegans on the internet and thought it was a beautiful palm. C. renda are a dime a dozen here and I didn't want another red one. Oh well, maybe it will turn out to be a better alternative than C. renda for higher elevations in the tropics. I had planned to take these to the beach garden to plant, but maybe I'll stick them in the ground here and see how they do.

[doranakandawatta]

Jeff,

It's nice to see your babies in their pots, It reminds me mines in Sri Lanka, we grow almost the same species but there is around 20'000 km distance!

We could do a "put in ground" competition, as you can see on my thread I am planting quite small plants.

Cyrtostachys elegans is a lovely palm, completely different from C. renda, I saw a nice plant in Samarakoon's garden and got 2 or 3 of them.

I didn't know it could be a hybrid, or do hybrids between elegans and renda exist?

[LilikoiLee]

Every palm is gorgeous and looks healthy! What's your secret?

Would you please let me know the size and age of the D. lamarckianum. Mine has not yet developed any color.

Thanks,

Lee

[Funkthulhu]

I dig your container ranch.

Thanks for posting!

[Jeff in St Pete]

Jeff,

It's nice to see your babies in their pots, It reminds me mines in Sri Lanka, we grow almost the same species but there is around 20'000 km distance!

We could do a "put in ground" competition, as you can see on my thread I am planting quite small plants.

Cyrtostachys elegans is a lovely palm, completely different from C. renda, I saw a nice plant in Samarakoon's garden and got 2 or 3 of them.

I didn't know it could be a hybrid, or do hybrids between elegans and renda exist?

Philippe, I would assume that the hybrid is between C. renda and C. elegans. I really wanted a true C. elegans but I don't know where to obtain one.

[Palmpirates]

looks like the start of a new container ranch

[Jeff in St Pete]

Every palm is gorgeous and looks healthy! What's your secret?

Would you please let me know the size and age of the D. lamarckianum. Mine has not yet developed any color.

Thanks,

Lee

Lee, I wish I had a secret to share with you but I don't. I haven't even fertilized any of them.

I received the D. lamarckianum seeds in July 2010 and they germinated in Sept, Oct, and Nov. So they are a little more than 3 years old.

[doranakandawatta]

This was a gift and it doesn't have an id tag. Maybe it's Drymophloeus sp. "Irian Jaya"?

I don't know if we can compare; this is my Drymophloeus sp. "Irian Jaya" from Jeff Marcus I got last august.

I wish some other palm-addicts could show us bigger plant of this species so we can understand how it looks.

Thanks

Philippe

[LilikoiLee]

Every palm is gorgeous and looks healthy! What's your secret?

Would you please let me know the size and age of the D. lamarckianum. Mine has not yet developed any color.

Thanks,

Lee

Lee, I wish I had a secret to share with you but I don't. I haven't even fertilized any of them.

I received the D. lamarckianum seeds in July 2010 and they germinated in Sept, Oct, and Nov. So they are a little more than 3 years old.

Jeff,

Tim and I split an order of condapanna and dictyocarum seeds in 2012. All of my dictyocarum sprouted, but none of my condapanna did, which is the exact opposite of what our different climates should have produced. I got a few condapanna from Tim and, thrilled with my success with the lamarckianum I gave all of them away except 3. Only one of those survived. So, I was hoping you could help me save it......Oh well, it was very nice to see your beautiful one.

PS: I actually had one condapanna sprout. I found it putting up a shoot in the soil below where I'd progated the seeds six months earlier. I potted it but it only survived a couple of weeks.

Lee