Ok, taken yesterday when I got home from work. 

All of the new fronds are the most silver. That means a progression towards more silver, and it has done that since I bought and planted it. 

Andrew, is the silver a structural colour or is it a tomentum?  Looks nice btw.

 

Love her

6 hours ago, Mandrew968 said:

 

All of the new fronds are the most silver. That means a progression towards more silver, and it has done that since I bought and planted it

 

 

4 hours ago, Rusty on Pine Is. said:

Andrew, is the silver a structural colour or is it a tomentum?

Rusty's question is an excellent one, and provides given what you are describing.  If it is tomentum, what you are describing fits well with what I see happen with my blue cycads (E princeps, lehmanii, trispinosis, horridus, etc).  The new flushes turn very blue after hardening off, when tomentum is heavy.  Meanwhile the oldest flushes are losing the blue color and turning a grey/green, as the tomentum has washed or rubbed off (rain, physical contact or from watering).  It may be something else, but the answer to Rusty's question will provide insight. 

Beautiful plant, so keep posting to this string as it grows!

Was out a couple days ago and told my wife to snap a shot of that blue thing in the yard for me.

Oh yeah, one unique and beautiful palm. An earlier photo looking down on it is amazing.

Tim

14 hours ago, Mandrew968 said:

Was out a couple days ago and told my wife to snap a shot of that blue thing in the yard for me.

 

Its looking amazing!!! Please let me know if you find one for sale locally!! How did you amend the soil for this one? 

Edited August 26, 20169 yr by velutina

On 8/17/2016, 8:57:40, Rusty on Pine Is. said:

Andrew, is the silver a structural colour or is it a tomentum?  Looks nice btw.

 

I took a closer look and I think it has chromatophors. Just kidding--actually I think the leaf is more grey-green than a regular rigida. That, and it has a lot of wax on it. So it's not or, so much as it's and.

7 hours ago, velutina said:

Its looking amazing!!! Please let me know if you find one for sale locally!! How did you amend the soil for this one? 

No ammending. Just removed the Euro trash that was there.

 I would have thought a few more years, but I guess it's already flowering at this size... good thing it's not monocarpic! This was yesterday on an overcast afternoon. This is actually the second inflorescence.

This one is highlighted--red is the inflorescence and the white circle is just a white circle.

I would have thought this thing flowering would have been a bigger deal...

Happy Halloween. These were taken just before dusk.

Really nice. 

An update from just this afternoon. My four year old for scale.

Beautiful palm!! 

A beautiful and unique palm!  Were you able to get any viable seeds from the last inflorescence?

No, they were a couple small inflorescences that aborted quickly. I have not seen any new ones either. Maybe in a I will have something to show for. I am debating if I cut off the other Copernicia flowers or not--rigida hybrids are super nice looking too.

Taken a few hours ago.

I had to climb on the top of my truck roof to get this shot. Lucky I am a lightweight...

I am impressed (and jealous) yet again as I review all the photos. Wish you could copy that one and send its twin my way!

11 hours ago, Cindy Adair said:

I am impressed (and jealous) yet again as I review all the photos. Wish you could copy that one and send its twin my way!

Cindy, I am very lucky to have this palm, and to have it so healthy and growing very fast! When it goes to seed(which should be soon), I know some will make it out to Puerto Rico...

I was only really worried about one palm, during Irma. This is a few months later-glad to report I only lost one baileyana (5') and an alba (10' of wood), as far as my Copernicia collection. My rigida looks a bit rough but it's doing very well! Happy for that.

It's getting harder to get the above shot.

Grow baby, GROW!! 

This palm made it through Irma impressively well. Of course there was some leaf damage.

Still rocking the silver-even on a gloomy wet day like today.