Palm trees that you hate.

[andyf]

messy, expensive to trim , and take up space ,queens coconuts,cabbage 125 assorted ones of these through out the property and and coconuts are 45 ft tall queens close behind

[peachy]

Phoenix reclinata, messy, ugly and crawling with nasty spines that attack anything that goes near them.

[Brad Mondel]

Haha This is great. Some people hate palms they can't grow, some hate the ones they can.

Phoenix reclinata is beautiful peachy but those spines are vicious. I'd never grow that one.

[DeletedAccount14e83d09a24f]

Pineappeled CIDP , can't fight it.

Don't come to Valencia then :laugh2: (it's full of CIDP's pineapples)

I like all palms, but one of my less favourites are those canopy-leaved palms; I just can't take in serious a palm which has normal tree leaves...

Edited April 26, 2015 by pRoeZa*

[Jim in Los Altos]

I'm trying to picture a palm with "normal" tree leaves. I'm having trouble, help me because it certainly can't be those luscious Licuala in the picture! To each his own.

[Danilopez89]

I don't think I hate any yet. But there is plenty that I dont like and would not plant in my yard.

[DeletedAccount14e83d09a24f]

I'm trying to picture a palm with "normal" tree leaves. I'm having trouble, help me because it certainly can't be those luscious Licuala in the picture! To each his own.

Well, it's a kind of saying. Obviously they aren't as normal tree leaves, but they appear more to be another species of trees which aren't palm trees. But that's a limit that everyone puts on himself.

Maybe my "palms with lookalike tree leaves" classifications are different than yours.

I like all palms, but from my point of view those kinds of palms are the ugliest ones... But they are not ugly, ugly referring to another palm trees...

Edited April 27, 2015 by pRoeZa*

[Phoenikakias]

Pineappeled CIDP , can't fight it.

Don't come to Valencia then :laugh2: (it's full of CIDP's pineapples)

I like all palms, but one of my less favourites are those canopy-leaved palms; I just can't take in serious a palm which has normal tree leaves...

Are the CIDP's in Valencia still alive, despite that they bare trimmed like pinaeapple?!?!?! I thought that this kind of trimming is an invitation to a dinner for the rpw! But ... hold on, I think I remeber that Valencia is not mediterranean but dry subtropical, that explains all, rpw gets sun sick!

[DeletedAccount14e83d09a24f]

Pineappeled CIDP , can't fight it.

Don't come to Valencia then :laugh2: (it's full of CIDP's pineapples)

I like all palms, but one of my less favourites are those canopy-leaved palms; I just can't take in serious a palm which has normal tree leaves...

Are the CIDP's in Valencia still alive, despite that they bare trimmed like pinaeapple?!?!?! I thought that this kind of trimming is an invitation to a dinner for the rpw! But ... hold on, I think I remeber that Valencia is not mediterranean but dry subtropical, that explains all, rpw gets sun sick!

Is full of avenues with giant pineapples between the car lanes :laugh2: Those ones won't die until the picudo affects them , I mean i've never seen a thougher palm than the CIDP... You can plant them near a toxic plant and they will grow too. Hahaha!

Edit: What means rpw?

Edited April 27, 2015 by pRoeZa*

[Phoenikakias]

Pineappeled CIDP , can't fight it.

Don't come to Valencia then :laugh2: (it's full of CIDP's pineapples)

I like all palms, but one of my less favourites are those canopy-leaved palms; I just can't take in serious a palm which has normal tree leaves...

Are the CIDP's in Valencia still alive, despite that they bare trimmed like pinaeapple?!?!?! I thought that this kind of trimming is an invitation to a dinner for the rpw! But ... hold on, I think I remeber that Valencia is not mediterranean but dry subtropical, that explains all, rpw gets sun sick!

Is full of avenues with giant pineapples between the car lanes :laugh2: Those ones won't die until the picudo affects them , I mean i've never seen a thougher palm than the CIDP... You can plant them near a toxic plant and they will grow too. Hahaha!

Edit: What means rpw?

OK I am desperate, I give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sashaeffer]

Kentia palms. Too touchy.

Hmm, I know lots of people who've had the same potted kentia palms inside for many years that look great and are practically totally neglected. They don't need a lot of light or fertilizer and just need to dry a bit between watering to be happy. An occasional shower is beneficial but not necessary. Of course, if you're in a compatible climate zone, they're one of the easiest palms to grow outdoors. It's one of my favorites.

Have had 3, all 3 died...especially after being misted(first two) 3rd just took to shower and let shower water rinse dust off. Almost immediately fronds turned brown and died. Unopened spear might possibly be alive, but things grow so slow it might take a year to open lol.

Largest local nursery tropical plant manager told me she isn't going to carry them anymore due to cost(here) and they always die when people take them home.

[DeletedAccount14e83d09a24f]

OK I am desperate, I give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What? I don't understand you mate why are you desperate? XD

I don't see the pineapples ugly. Perhaps I even arrive to like them in a part

For me are a lot uglier the abandoned Washingtonias... like those ones in the middle of an abandoned orange cultivar:

I HATE those palms. For God's sake TRIM THEM!!

Edited April 27, 2015 by pRoeZa*

[Brad Mondel]

Those are cute skirts they have on.

[Kim]

rpw = red palm weevil, I think the same as "picudo"

[DeletedAccount14e83d09a24f]

rpw = red palm weevil, I think the same as "picudo"

big thanks! @Phoenikakias sorry, you might think I was joking with you or something. I didn't knew that rpw means the red palm weevil.

Yep, it's a huge invitation to them to affect the palm... Although the rpw does what he wants. It destroyed my childhood's palm, which was near my block and was about 15-20m huge, one of the best and oldest CIDP in all the town (in fact they build a new gas store around the palm for not touch/harm it!) and the bug from the devil killed it. Kinda sad

[Tropical Guy]

Can someone tell me what palm is that posted by trioderob at #27, so beautiful.

[Palmaceae]

Can someone tell me what palm is that posted by trioderob at #27, so beautiful.

That is a Lodoicea maldivica, common name, Coco de mer palm, or double coconut palm.

[GMann]

I have an ugly common Sabal in my backyard that drops chunks of dead inflorescence that look like ugly brown roots, and they stink too! So Sabals are probably one of my least favorite. Though even Sabals can look nice sometimes.

People have been saying that Washingtonias are ugly, but when I see Sabals growing next to Washingtonia there is no comparison, Washingtonias look much nicer (taller, slenderer, prettier leaves, and interesting petticoats).

The other one I find pretty ugly is Christmas palm (Adonidia), I just don't like how the palm leaves point upwards and curve, they look too cartoon-like. But even these can also look nice when a bunch of them grow really tall together in a grove, I just don't like how they look when panted as singles or in little clumps on an avenue or as a centerpiece, they look unnatural like that.

[Yunder Wækraus]

I used to dislike queen palms. A lot of them are underwatered in NorCal, and they weren't commonly seen in most areas north of Pismo till after the freeze when I was about 12 or 13 (1989 or 1990). But I planted two small ones at my old house in Fairfield, CA, and they became some of my favorite plants. I guess I don't hate any palm, though Canaries often rub me the wrong way. (I think they look terrible in Florida.)

[Bismark]

I HATE Queen, Queen and Queen. Weed species in Brisbane, if I ever become Lord mayor I'm cutting them all down