Prestoea acuminata 'montana'

[Trópico]

I'll show you mine. Give them shade, a lot of water, and they will give you back many rewards. Native to the cloud forests of the Caribbean. One year from seed.

Kris that one on the left is a Japanese Maple.

[BS Man about Palms]

Wait till Gary Levine posts his...very nice. (for the mainland)

[bgl]

These are beautiful palms with very colorful inflorescences. Here's one of ours.

[paulgila]

bo is it my imagination or do your photos look a bit

"pixel-ized"?

look at yer photo then quickly scroll up to tropicos--his seems much more clear to me. ???

[bgl]

Paul,

Maybe! I reduce all mine to the smallest possible size in order to be able to post them directly on the Forum.

Bo-Göran

[paulgila]

well,its not just me then

[Trópico]

Bo- yours is nice! It takes me back to El Yunque.

[Gtlevine]

Here is my Prestoea a couple years ago, no new pictures yet.

Gary

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/...033865512FbZJKz

[Tyrone]

Frank, My Prestoa montana's were pinnate from the first leaf. If your bifid ones are P montana, what am I growing then??????

regards

Tyrone

[elHoagie]

(Tyrone @ May 29 2007,15:23)

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Frank, My Prestoa montana's were pinnate from the first leaf. If your bifid ones are P montana, what am I growing then??????

regards

Tyrone

Tyrone,

I'm pretty sure mine sayed bifid until it was pretty big, with maybe a 2-3cm (1inch) diameter base...

Jack

[SubTropicRay]

from 2 years ago

[Dypsisdean]

I've had a palm in the ground for about 12 years that I bought as Prestoea montana. Do you think this is the same palm?

[Trópico]

Very nice Ray and Gary!

Two years ago? It must have put some decent growth. Do you have a more recent photo?

Gileno, do you still have yours?

[Tyrone]

(elHoagie @ May 29 2007,19:24)

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(Tyrone @ May 29 2007,15:23)

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Frank, My Prestoa montana's were pinnate from the first leaf. If your bifid ones are P montana, what am I growing then??????

regards

Tyrone

Tyrone,

I'm pretty sure mine sayed bifid until it was pretty big, with maybe a 2-3cm (1inch) diameter base...

Jack

I got my seed from RPS and they've all come up pinnate, not unlike a Euterpe. Maybe that's what I've got then.

regards

Tyrone

[SubTropicRay]

Mine came from seed collected by Mike Dahme in 1999.

[Trópico]

This is how seeds should look like. Collected in May 2006 (germinated into the ones you see in the first post).

[Pivi]

How much water do young seedlings (starting first leaf) need? Do they like being "soaked"?

[Trópico]

(Pivi @ Dec. 27 2007,11:22)

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How much water do young seedlings (starting first leaf) need? Do they like being "soaked"?

Soaked as in drenched in constant rain. That's what they like. BUT, good drainage.

By the way mine are still bifid, 10 leaves so far. The center one has a leaf with 3 sections, so the pinnate is starting to happen now, 1.5 years from seed.

[mike in kurtistown]

Here are some photos of P. acuminata, v. montana, in its natural habitat in Puerto Rico. These were originally old-style photos that I had digitized, then reduced in file size in PE.

Here's an inflorescence:

One palm:

I suspect that this isn't going to work.

Mike

[mike in kurtistown]

Could someone tell me how to post multiple pictures in a post?

Here's the inflorescence:

[mike in kurtistown]

Here's a group:

[Pivi]

delete

[Pivi]

Mine are just starting to form their first leaf.

Unfortunately, i lost 8 od 10 due to fungus... but this two are going on well...

[Chuck B]

tropico-Nice shot of El Yunque.The Prestoa there are so impressive.About 2 years ago i went to the other side of el Yunque,and saw lots of them there too mixed in with all those gorgeous Tree Ferns.

[Trópico]

(Mike in Kurtisstown @ Dec. 27 2007,14:24)

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Could someone tell me how to post multiple pictures in a post?

You need to create an account on an image hosting service such as photobucket.com.  Then add the img link in here.

By the way, very nice pictures. Very impressive inflorescences.

[cfkingfish]

Tyrone-

Euterpe and Prestoea are closely related. Even in Euterpe, the only ones that go pinnate are E. edulis and E. espiritosantensis. E. oleracea and precatoria are bifid from what I remember.

[Tyrone]

(cfkingfish @ Dec. 29 2007,11:21)

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Tyrone-

Euterpe and Prestoea are closely related. Even in Euterpe, the only ones that go pinnate are E. edulis and E. espiritosantensis. E. oleracea and precatoria are bifid from what I remember.

Yes, that's true. I had some oleracea and they were all bifid. I think I got E edulis instead of my montana's I ordered. The seed looked identical to what was posted earlier as montana.

Thanks

regards

Tyrone

[Pivi]

how fast are they?

These are mine, around 2 months after germinating.

[bgl]

Pivi,

They're not super fast, but not particularly slow either. Here are some of our volunteer Prestoea acuminata seedlings.

Bo-Göran

[Pivi]

This is such a great palm, it's a shame there are so little information about it online.

[Trópico]

While we're in the mood

[Trópico]

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[Pivi]

wow, that's lot's of prestoea.

How many are there? Did you count?  :laugh:

[bgl]

Frank,

Great pictures! Nothing compares to seeing palms in their natural environment!

Bo-Göran

[brodklop]

Frank..fantastic photos.. I'll have to get some of these. I think Daryl on the Gold Coast is growing one of these.. show us a pic Daryl...

Regards

Brod

[Daryl]

Brod,

The leaves on mine took a real hammering from last winter's night of hell. Funnily, the Betel nut next to it was undamaged. Here is the trunk on mine, starting to get some size to it. These things love water.

There are a couple of large fruiting ones down at Chinderah.

Daryl

[Trópico]

An update on these three pups. 2007:

Yesterday:

#1

#2 is my best looking

#3 is not looking too sexy after an encounter with fungus.

[palmsOrl]

My in-ground specimen with about 5 ft. of clear trunk really took a hit this past winter, being completely defoliated except for the lower half of the emerging spear. Over the last 10 months, it has only managed to put out one really stunted leaf and is showing signs of pencil pointing as well. I really hope it pulls through, it was a beautiful palm. Nice habitat photos btw, thanks for sharing.

-Michael

[realarch]

Thanks for the photos Frank, and I was worried I planted mine too close together.

[Eric in Orlando]

We have one about 3ft tall that suffered last winter because of the long coolness. Didn't show damage right away but slowly declined and suffered severe burn. It didn't do much but has since started growing but still only put out 3 new leaves since spring.