How Bout a 'Color' thread?

[tarnado]

The winter sun caught these vibrant orange Trachycarpus fortunei infructesences* and it looked like they were glowing. 

[realarch]

Licuala ‘mapu’ inflorescence.

Tim

[Harry’s Palms]

3 hours ago, realarch said:

Licuala ‘mapu’ inflorescence.

Tim

Oh my! What a display. Harry

[Husain]

Bismarkia

 

[Jonathan]

Some nice colour on this Butia odorata inflorescence.

[happypalms]

Licuala orbicularis in the Coffs Harbour botanical gardens. 

[tim_brissy_13]

Hyophorbe indica green and red forms planted as a double showing off a nice contrast of colour. 

[happypalms]

Dypsis louvelli 

Dypsis lantzeana 

Calyptrocalyx benga dawn 

[happypalms]

On 2/1/2026 at 2:21 PM, tim_brissy_13 said:

Hyophorbe indica green and red forms planted as a double showing off a nice contrast of colour. 

You must agonise over having space for all those palms you want to grow! 

[realarch]

The ‘ole’ Chrysalidocarpus paucifolius, aka ‘orange crush.’ Love the scale that growing in almost solid rock dictates.  

Tim

[realarch]

Chrysalidocarpus loucoubensis sowing some color after a frond drop.

Tim

[JohnAndSancho]

New leaf on Philodendron Caramel Pluto 

[Husain]

Yellow latania 

 

[Husain]

Red Latania new frond 

 

 

[Rick Kelley]

Pinanga caesia may suffer from overexposure on PT, but mine only recently started blooming so the novelty hasn't worn off yet. I still get startled when I walk by when a new inflorescence is about to open. The entire tree is Technicolor, but the blooms dial it up to 11.The deep red covering (bract?) only stays on for a few hours.

After it falls away, the soft pink flower buds are exposed for less than a day.

First thing the next morning the flowers open to a cloud of bees. After only a few hours all the flowers have fallen to the ground leaving just the bare violet rachilia that might go on to make fruit, if I'm lucky. I wonder what role the intense colors play. I assume the bees are attracted to some fragrance, not the color, but I really don't know. I could believe brightly colored fruit attracts birds for seed dispersal, but that is months down the road. No matter, it is an impressive, albeit brief, show.

 

Palmpedia says this species is difficult in California. I hope people on the mainland are able to find a protected spot in their garden that can provide the right microclimate for this beautiful palm. If you are going to try zone pushing, might as well swing for the fences. I hear that this is one of the taller Pinangas,. I'll need to keep adding another baby every few years so I always have eye level blooms.

[realarch]

You are correct with the eye level observation as mine are waaayyy up there these days. The color is one of nature’s wonders. Luckily my smaller Hydriastele’s have similar intense coloration, so I can still enjoy the show.

Tim

[realarch]

A colorful couple in the morning sun. Pinanga insignis, and orange Areca vestiaria.

Tim

[Husain]

Red latania & cranberry acetosella hibiscus