Strange hybrid

[TikiRick]

I was given a gift of a seedling that I was told was a cross between Zombia and Coccothrinax. After growing a bit and sinking that bad boy into the ground, it is getting up in size...but no characteristics of a Zombia at all. It is about 9 foot overall now...not yet showing clear trunk.

No spines, no clustering, nothing.

Has anyone ever heard of this cross, and if so, what do you know about it??

[Ken Johnson]

I have grown them. There are some old ones a FTBG. They usually clump with no spines. The best cross is crinita.

[SunnyFl]

A year ago, GTC Nursery up in Brevard had one for sale.  I can't remember too many specifics except that it was a beauty, and that it seemed very robust.

[Jeff Searle]

Rick,

   I still have one here at the nursery that I have had for years. Like Ken said, mine also is clumping, but no spines. It looks mostly like a coccothrinax.

Jeff

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[Dave-Vero]

I have one from GTC of Merritt Island.  I planted it a bit too close to some other stuff, but it looks like it'll be making some trunk this summer.   My main concern is for it to get a bit taller than a nearby Sabal minor.  It really looks like a Coccothrinax--no spines, at least not yet.  The leaves are very silvery beneath.

The bed it's in gave everything I planted that spring fungus infections affecting younger younger leaves.  Even a saw palmetto got sick.  The hybrid has completely recovered, so you'd never know it happened.  And the silver palmetto, badly set back, is growing nicely too.  

The bed is currently pretty dense--a Myrcianthes fragrans (Simson stopper bush at the very rear, then Heliconia collinsiana, then Sabal minor, then the "Cocozombie", then a young Archontophoenix tuckeri at the front, with scarlet sage, caladiums.  Rain lilies at the very front.  As time goes by, the Heliconia will be scaled down or removed and the Archontophoenix will rise above the other stuff.

[Eric in Orlando]

Those at Fairchild are nice. They are near the old entrance. I think it was crossed with C. argentea.

Here is a young Zombia crossed with C. argentata. So far it hasn't suckered or really developed the intricate fibers and spines on the trunk;

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/leu4510....181

[cfkingfish]

They are actually not too hard to find when a Zombia and Coccothrinax are nearby, which is very common here. Across the golf course from me, Edwin Stumpf has one that has 7 trunks and no spines, but it is a cross with C. barbadensis. I have a 3 gallon Zombia x C. crinita, and the segments are very stiff and upright. Really cool palm, the only odd cultural requirement is that they prefer some shade.

[amazon exotics]

Christian, You wouldn't happen to have a photo of Prall's, would you, I'm sure you saw it when you were there. It's huge.