Lanonia (Licuala) dasiantha

[Alberto]

I grew a batch of seeds (from China) of his relatively cold hardy species. They grew well in pots in deep shade of the forest. I ´d like to plant out some of the bigger seedlings. What do they prefer? Half shady conditions,bright shade or full shade? Can they handle full sun? Show me please your palms!

[Alberto]

This  first pic in Palmpedia is very ilustrative.(Clayton York´s Garden, Utopia Palms & Cycads, Queensland, Australia) It seems a bigger palm I had first thought and the spot where it grows looks very bright . http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Lanonia_dasyanthaIt 

[Mike Evans]

Alberto, I planted about a dozen of these in the garden last Fall.  They are getting filtered light during the Winter, and will be getting about 4 hours of full Sun in the Summer.  It is actually the opposite of what I want, but it is, what it is. They have not seen the strong Sun yet.  I have lots of them in containers growing in filtered light.  They seem to like it.  I got a lot of germinated seed from Gary in China, but they all damped off because I was growing them in the dead of Winter.  I highly recommend Gary though.  I planted them thick to make a statement when full grown.  I love the mottled leaves.

[Alberto]

Wow! This mass planting will look stunning in a few years! How old are yours?

[doranakandawatta]

2 hours ago, Alberto said:

I grew a batch of seeds (from China) of his relatively cold hardy species. They grew well in pots in deep shade of the forest. I ´d like to plant out some of the bigger seedlings. What do they prefer? Half shady conditions,bright shade or full shade? Can they handle full sun? Show me please your palms!

good idea, one bottle of Champagne every 10 palms planted; I join the party 

[Palm Tree Jim]

This is L. fordiana from Jeff Marcus that was put in the ground about 6 months ago.

[Alberto]

22 minutes ago, doranakandawatta said:

good idea, one bottle of Champagne every 10 palms planted; I join the party 

In a short time we would became alcoholic palm nuts! 

[Palm Tree Jim]

27 minutes ago, doranakandawatta said:

good idea, one bottle of Champagne every 10 palms planted; I join the party 

Wonder how much planting would get done after the first 10 palms!

[Alberto]

7 hours ago, Palm Tree Jim said:

Wonder how much planting would get done after the first 10 palms!

Better to stick with 10 palms per day.....

[Alberto]

I read that according Pete :

• "Lanonia dasyantha are good looking palms all year.... actually they are pretty perfect looking palms, they always beam with health and retain great shape and colour. The closest is in this pic is a happy twin and the back one is a rampant clumper..btw..the darker their environs, the more mottle and colour..Pete" Photo by Pete

•  

http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Lanonia_dasyantha

Who also saw this characteristic: "the darker the enviroment , the more mottle and colour"?

[aussiearoids]

Grown this on from a tiny seedling . Planted out about 18 months ago and done very well .

This superbly marked leaf grown in constant shade pic taken mid winter last year.

[aussiearoids]

It has grown another leaf and currently has a big spike coming .

Noticed 3 little suckers around base .

mottle detail

[dmc]

Grown from a seedling planted out about a year ago, so far so good. No suckers yet.

Dominic

 

[realarch]

Nice photos guys, nice little palm although I wouldn't mind having some as large as the ones in Australia. Yikes!

I've got four smaller ones, but they have great mottling at such a young age. Medium shade and no direct sun ever. 

I could use more. 

Tim

 

[Mandrew968]

For me, I can't grow mapu in the ground. Dasayantha is a breeze and for the look you get, I don't know why so many people mess with the mapu in South Florida--this is the palm you grow. Unless you are Dr. Block, at Block Botanical Gardens... there seem to be few horticultural limits in that magical place.  

[dmc]

I agree andrew, I call it my mapu substitute. I have a great looking mapu in a pot but would never dream of putting it in the ground. Dasyantha seems to be a breeze so far. A bunch more seedlings in the shade house to go in the ground in time, never have any issues with them.

Dominic

[Edo]

Beautiful pictures!
I have some 1 year old seedlings that I got as sprouted seeds from Gary in China aswell..

Love those leaves..

Edited February 5, 2016 by Edo

[Alberto]

Thanks for the replies and wonderfull pictures!

 

[doranakandawatta]

Does Lanonia requires the same shade or half-shade conditions like L. mapu? 

We already have L. mapu

and just start with Lanonia dasiantha seedlings.

Looking forward to seeing them grow !

[dmc]

Now with 1 small sucker..

[Alberto]

Some of my L. dasysanthas. Slow but growing and one forming offshoots.

[Alberto]

[akamu]

Looking good Alberto I've had no success with the species here in California

[realarch]

Hard to believe that it's been four years since Alberto started this thread. 

I just took some shots of the same L. dasyantha that I posted earlier in this thread and they have continued to thrive. They've also grown quite a bit, getting much 

larger than I expected and still growing. Mottling varies from plant to plant, some spectacular and some not so much.

Sometime back, Pete from Australia, had antidotal evidence that fertilizing decreased the mottling, so as a result, I've not fertilized in years. That may change as some are

starting to look a bit washed out with a lighter color change. I'll give some of them a bit of juice and see what happens. 

Tim

 

 

[Vic]

I’ve not long come back from a visit to North Vietnam where is saw this species in habitat on Tam Dao. I assumed it was a Licuala initially, it wasn’t until I read Andrew Henderson’s book I realised it wasn’t. This one was a 1300m and it was a cold day at around 11c in mid November. 

[tim_brissy_13]

7 hours ago, Vic said:

I’ve not long come back from a visit to North Vietnam where is saw this species in habitat on Tam Dao. I assumed it was a Licuala initially, it wasn’t until I read Andrew Henderson’s book I realised it wasn’t. This one was a 1300m and it was a cold day at around 11c in mid November. 

Great thread bump! Habitat pics are always good to see on the forum and it’s really useful to understand the climate of the native habitat of palms. I think this explains a lot. L dasyantha are a lot tougher than they look. I’ve never had a spot on mine even down to around -1.5C/29F, and we get relatively long, cool winters with around 10 frosts per year on average. Here my 2 planted up the back of the garden in a cool South facing position. Slow growing for me but the bigger one is starting to put out its character fronds which is exciting. 

 

[happypalms]

7 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Great thread bump! Habitat pics are always good to see on the forum and it’s really useful to understand the climate of the native habitat of palms. I think this explains a lot. L dasyantha are a lot tougher than they look. I’ve never had a spot on mine even down to around -1.5C/29F, and we get relatively long, cool winters with around 10 frosts per year on average. Here my 2 planted up the back of the garden in a cool South facing position. Slow growing for me but the bigger one is starting to put out its character fronds which is exciting. 

 

They look familiar, there super tough just add water, and if your lucky from seed I did manage to get a variegated one. They love shade and don’t mind a little morning sun. I have about 500 in pots and so many in the ground, I have worked them out and are easy to grow. And there are a few different varieties available as well.