Burretokentia veillardii --flowers?

[Gbarce]

Looks like an inflorescence in bloom???

Do I need a male and female of this species to get seeds?

[Peter Pacific]

Beautiful Gene! I don't think so...Burretiokentia is a monoecious genus.

Peter

[LJG]

That is really weird for a Burretiokentia. Looks to be flowering way to early and the deformed flower is really odd.

[Rory]

Definitely not a Burretiokentia species based off that that inflorescence. Burretiokentia as a whole have very distinctive inflorescence, looks kind of like a Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana. Without a picture of the whole plant it could be a variety of understory palms though.

[LJG]

Definitely not a Burretiokentia species based off that that inflorescence. Burretiokentia as a whole have very distinctive inflorescence, looks kind of like a Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana. Without a picture of the whole plant it could be a variety of understory palms though.

Good eye.

[Gbarce]

Rory, now that you have mentioned it -- it might be a Calyptrogyne.

I planted Burretokenias and Calyptrogynes in this area and I just assumed this was a Burretokentia because it is the bigger plant (the Calyptrogynes were tiny when I planted them here). Are they monoeicious too?

I'm gonna need bats to pollinate these, right?

Edited October 5, 2014 by Gbarce

[Gbarce]

Here's the entire palm

[Rory]

With that last picture it sure looks like a Calyptrogyne to me. I'm pretty sure they're monoecious so it should have a chance of producing seed. I have read they're pollinated by bats, but if you don't have any in your area there could be something else that would be attracted to it. If not you could always try and pollinate it manually. Beautiful palm by the way!

[Gbarce]

I thought it was a young Burretokentia whose leaves were just starting to split up. I got the impression that Calytrogyne leaves were simple with just a few splits. We have a number of bats over here, I just hope we have the right kind of bats. But hopefully insects will find the flowers attractive and pollinate them too.

[Dr. George]

Just for comparison to Burretiokentia:

Burretiokentia vieillardii

Burretiokentia hapala

gmp

[comic097]

Great Pics Dr George, beautiful looking palms, thanks for sharing ya pics

[Gbarce]

haha - well that makes it perfectly clear

Edited October 6, 2014 by Gbarce