palms and climbing plants.......

[trioderob]

was looking thru my Cook Island photos I posted in the travel log section of PT and noticed this palm had a very cool looking climbing plant on it

any of you folks in the tropical areas have something like this with your palms - if so post a photo

[Pal Meir]

A queen dressed in her robe (Cairns 1979):

[trioderob]

any more "robed " palms ?????

[Cocoa Beach Jason]

I'm not necessarily in one of the "tropical" locales but here is a pathos I started from a stick and trained it to grow up and cover this ugly queen palm trunk. The queen is super-tall and was not cared for by the previous owner who planted it. It is about 40 ft tall. The trunk has been looking rough. This pathos has filled in nicely in the two years since I stuck the 2ft-long stick in the ground at the base. Perhaps in about 3 more years it will get another 10-15ft up the ugly trunk.

Edited June 11, 2015 by Cocoa Beach Jason

[_Keith]

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I'm not necessarily in one of the "tropical" locales but here is a pathos I started from a stick and trained it to grow up and cover this ugly queen palm trunk. The queen is super-tall and was not cared for by the previous owner who planted it. It is about 40 ft tall. The trunk has been looking rough. This pathos has filled in nicely in the two years since I stuck the 2ft-long stick in the ground at the base. Perhaps in about 3 more years it will get another 10-15ft up the ugly trunk.

Interesting, and good looking, too. I wonder if there is any info on health effects on the palms, good or bad.

[Josh-O]

I've always liked those climbing philodendron type plants when they climb on palms..

[Cocoa Beach Jason]

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I'm not necessarily in one of the "tropical" locales but here is a pathos I started from a stick and trained it to grow up and cover this ugly queen palm trunk. The queen is super-tall and was not cared for by the previous owner who planted it. It is about 40 ft tall. The trunk has been looking rough. This pathos has filled in nicely in the two years since I stuck the 2ft-long stick in the ground at the base. Perhaps in about 3 more years it will get another 10-15ft up the ugly trunk.

Interesting, and good looking, too. I wonder if there is any info on health effects on the palms, good or bad.

I worried about excessive moisture gathering around the trunk due to the roots and shade the leaves create. I too worried about fungus, etc. But I did it anyway because the ugliness is a bigger problem. I will report if I ever have issues.

[palmislandRandy]

I dunno

[Matt in OC]

I'm not sure if this is a palm, but I took this picture at the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden a few years ago.

[trioderob]

its a pretty bitchin look for a palm - no ???

(that aint me by the way)

Edited June 11, 2015 by trioderob

[Zeeth]

Neat! Scott in Tampa (he doesn't post much on PT anymore) has a palm with a bunch of Vanilla sprawling up it. It looks really cool and he even gets vanilla bean from it sometimes.

[Richie]

I think broms growing up the trunk of a palm look great , haven't had any adverse affects from doing this .

[tropicbreeze]

Vanilla Orchid up a Carpy. To get a bushy look you need to plant several of them because they're monopodial.



Philodendron erubescens up another Carpy.



Amydrium zippelanum, and further up Monstera adansonii on a Carpy (I have a lot of Carpies).



Drynaria quercifolia with Philodendron erubescens on an African Oil Palm



Mix of Monstera adansonii and Vanilla Orchid on a Carpy.

[Ben in Norcal]

Likewise, not a fan of this look. If you don't like the look of the trunk, perhaps you should be growing different palms...

[Cocoa Beach Jason]

Likewise, not a fan of this look. If you don't like the look of the trunk, perhaps you should be growing different palms...

Although I normally would agree with you, in my specific case, it isn't so easy to just "grow a different palm." The queen palm I inherited from the previous homeowner is giant. It is also not easy to remove. The roots are 15 ft at least in all directions. If I cut the palm down I probably couldn't grow something else there due to compacted old roots. So, better I cover the ugly trunk with some tropical foliage than to just have an empty dead spot in the yard.

[Ben in Norcal]

Likewise, not a fan of this look. If you don't like the look of the trunk, perhaps you should be growing different palms...

Although I normally would agree with you, in my specific case, it isn't so easy to just "grow a different palm." The queen palm I inherited from the previous homeowner is giant. It is also not easy to remove. The roots are 15 ft at least in all directions. If I cut the palm down I probably couldn't grow something else there due to compacted old roots. So, better I cover the ugly trunk with some tropical foliage than to just have an empty dead spot in the yard.

I get it. I do like the layered look - palms around palms at different heights - to avoid the "telephone pole" look. That's what I've done around my big queenie. But I find the foliage on trunks look generally - not always, but generally - unnatural looking in residential applications.

[amazondk]

Vining plants are an important part of the forest around here.

Here is one on a Mauritia flexuosa.

And, on a Mauritiella Armata

[trioderob]

its a great look