CANARY ISLAND PALM WITH RED FRUIT

[Astrophoenix]

I have seen dozens and dozes of canary island palms fruiting and never saw one with fruits not having pale orange colour.

This one astonished me as its colour is so different,highly ornamental and even becomes darker as the fruit ages.

Its a very rare sight in my area.

What about in your area.

Edited August 28, 2014 by Astrophoenix

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

This is phoenix canariensis var. porphyrocarpa: http://abepyc.com/fichas/phoenix-canariensis-var-porphyrocarpa/

There is an interesting old discussion about these here: http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/2289-red-canary-dates/

I have a bunch of seedlings of these, we'll see how they turn out.

[Astrophoenix]

Thank you very much Alex for enlightening me.

[WestCoastGal]

What beautiful rich coloring. Can we see a photo of the whole palm?

[Astrophoenix]

Its truly highly ornamental.

The palm is low and will post more pics in a couple of days,when I revisit the area.

Anyway,I will collect those seeds and hopefully will soon have a few hundred seedlings.

Already have a few from last year.

[Kostas]

Having seen them from close as large adults,they are more like an oddity than beautiful. The bright yellow-orange fruits of the type species is far more impressive and obvious. The dark reddish fruits of this var. get lost in the dark green foliage of an adult.

[Astrophoenix]

They are certainly less obvious from a distance.

But I can't resist that color from up close.

I will propagate a bunch of them and plant them around.

My municipality alone has a lot of public spaces that could use a canary island palm.

I am too embarrassed

to post in an international forum pics of my municipalities most central public squares.