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What is your favorite palm species?

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NC_Palms

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Personally I love the sabal palmetto, they are truly a palm built for the South!

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Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

DoomsDave Grand Master

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The short answer is 

what ever Palm I’m looking at right now!

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PalmTreeDude Grand Master

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Here are my top three, first is Sabal palmetto, it is the palm I have seen most and wherever I am it makes me think of the beach. Then it is the Coconut Palm, a favorite of a lot of people but it is truly an amazing palm, I am seeing them literally everywhere right now in West Palm Beach. There was a strip of undeveloped land and there was a mixture of Coconut Palms (naturalized and not maintained at all, but looked good) and Sabal palmetto growing. Then, I love Royal Palms, they just simply look awesome. Here is a picture of a part of the coconuts that were naturalized (I was in the car as a passenger so the picture is bad). 

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Neil C Mentor

Neil C

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I love Chamaerops for their toughness and the endless different forms they exhibit.

Regards Neil

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sandgroper Veteran

sandgroper

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Coconut and lipstick palms, I love them both!

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Estlander Experienced

Estlander

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My first would probably be a Coconut palm. Closely followed by Royal, Adonidia, Foxtail and Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis. 

 

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Estlander Experienced

Estlander

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  On 8/22/2018 at 3:31 AM, DoomsDave said:

The short answer is 

what ever Palm I’m looking at right now!

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Haha... good answer and quite true in my case too :)

wimmie Experienced

wimmie

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I love the palms I am able to grow here in Holland (and they are always smaller/young plants because I have to grow them in a container), especially Cyrtostachys renda, the colourful varieties of Cocos nucifera, both Mascarena's, Latania's, Howeia forstereana, the many varieties of Chamaerops humilis, Butia's, Livistona chinensis, Chrysalidocarpus lutenscence, Microcoelum (sorry, I am an older guy and love the former names).

cm05 Experienced

cm05

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Bismarckia nobilis.

Sabal palmetto was my original favorite (still love it), then Washingtonia robusta became my favorite (it’s my #2 now), and Phoenix dactylifera is another favorite of mine.

DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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But, if I had only limited space so what I could have room to plant and look at is limited: Dypsis leptocheilos, for starters.

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Pal Meir Grand Master

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  On 8/22/2018 at 10:45 AM, wimmie said:

I love the palms I am able to grow here in Holland ………… Microcoelum (sorry, I am an older guy and love the former names).

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In case you mean the Miniature Coconut Palm »Microcoelum« is the youngest genus specification: Cocos 1871, Glaziova 1881, Syagrus 1916, Lytocaryum 1944, and finally Microcoelum 1956. The at present »valid« name is Syagrus weddelliana Beccari 1916 is 30 years older than »Microcoelum martianum Burret & Potztal 1956. So I guess you are still a quite young guy? :greenthumb::D

PS: It is also my favorite. :wub:

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Pal Meir Grand Master

Pal Meir

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Oops, a misprint: :rolleyes:

The at present »valid« name Syagrus weddelliana Beccari 1916 is 40 years older than »Microcoelum martianum Burret & Potztal 1956.

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NC_Palms Veteran

NC_Palms

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  On 8/22/2018 at 3:31 AM, DoomsDave said:

The short answer is 

what ever Palm I’m looking at right now!

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HAHAHAHA :floor:

 

  On 8/22/2018 at 3:54 AM, PalmTreeDude said:

Here are my top three, first is Sabal palmetto, it is the palm I have seen most and wherever I am it makes me think of the beach. Then it is the Coconut Palm, a favorite of a lot of people but it is truly an amazing palm, I am seeing them literally everywhere right now in West Palm Beach. There was a strip of undeveloped land and there was a mixture of Coconut Palms (naturalized and not maintained at all, but looked good) and Sabal palmetto growing. Then, I love Royal Palms, they just simply look awesome. Here is a picture of a part of the coconuts that were naturalized (I was in the car as a passenger so the picture is bad). 

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I love WPB. I would love to live down in South Florida. 

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

GottmitAlex Grand Master

GottmitAlex

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Golden/Yellow coconut palms, Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis, Adonidii merrillii, Ravanea Hildebranti, Howea forsteriana, Copernicia fallaensis.

 

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5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

Manalto Mentor

Manalto

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Since you asked "what is" not "what are" I feel pressured to name only one:

Licuala elegans

It's such a "wow" plant. But this is too much like asking someone's favorite child so, as many of the others did, the runners up are:

Roystonea regia tied with its scaled-down doppelganger, Wodyetia bifurcata

Veitchia arecina

Bismarckia nobilis

Of course, I'm no longer in a place where I can grow any of these so my favorites, by necessity, are anything 8b!

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Darold Petty Grand Master

Darold Petty

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  On 8/22/2018 at 3:31 AM, DoomsDave said:

The short answer is 

what ever Palm I’m looking at right now!

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Ha !   Dave 're-cycled' this sentiment from the late Pauleen  Sullivan.  (Still, it is a great line, one I have used myself.)  :P

  I have several Really Good palms, including Geonoma undata, but for overall value, availability and ease of growth  I must say Hedyscepe.

 

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San Francisco, California

GottmitAlex Grand Master

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  On 8/23/2018 at 3:46 AM, Darold Petty said:

Ha !   Dave 're-cycled' this sentiment from the late Pauleen  Sullivan.  (Still, it is a great line, one I have used myself.)  :P

  I have several Really Good palms, including Geonoma undata, but for overall value, availability and ease of growth  I must say Hedyscepe.

 

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Which palm is pictured above? It's gorgeous.

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5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

Darold Petty Grand Master

Darold Petty

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It is one of my five Hedyscepe palms in  'pride of place' at the front of my home. :)

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San Francisco, California

GottmitAlex Grand Master

GottmitAlex

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  On 8/23/2018 at 4:08 AM, Darold Petty said:

It is one of my five Hedyscepe palms in  'pride of place' at the front of my home. :)

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Wunderbar!

BTW, is the fruit edible?

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5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

knell Mentor

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  On 8/23/2018 at 4:08 AM, Darold Petty said:

It is one of my five Hedyscepe palms in  'pride of place' at the front of my home. :)

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your garden is looking fantastic as always!!

Stelios Experienced

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From the ones I'm growing at home is Beccariophoenix alfredii. But my favorite that I can't grow here is Lemurophoenix halleuxii.

 

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Jim in Los Altos Grand Master

Jim in Los Altos

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Gorgeous ringed trunks, brawny but graceful pinnate fronds, deep green color, and overall dramatic palms... Rhopalostylis. Next would be Howea, then Hedescepe, then Ceroxylon.  I also adore Archontophoenix for their shear speed of growth and beauty. Foxy Lady is fun, very tropical looking and SUPER fast. I better stop now or I'll add another 50 species. 

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Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

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Darold Petty Grand Master

Darold Petty

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  On 8/23/2018 at 4:14 AM, GottmitAlex said:

Wunderbar!

BTW, is the fruit edible?

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No, the mesocarp is only a thin and fibrous layer over the very large seed.

San Francisco, California

Brad Mondel Grand Master

Brad Mondel

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Butia odorata 

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Los Angeles, CA and Myrtle Beach, SC.

Manalto Mentor

Manalto

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  On 8/23/2018 at 5:23 AM, Stelios said:

But my favorite that I can't grow here is Lemurophoenix halleuxii.

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Magnificent. Learning about this palm (and others yet to come, of course) is a good part of the reason I joined PT. Thank you!

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Jubaea_James760 Veteran

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Really really tough question... I couldn't narrow it down to 1 so I picked top 5.

#1 Sabals. Especially Riverside, Palmetto, & Birmingham. Followed bY Mexicana,Uresana, Pumos, Causiarum etc... 

#2 Bismarckia's

#3 Livistona's

#4 Medemia argun

#5 Brahea's, Copernicias, Hyphaene, Trithrinax's, Dypsis,Corypha umbraculifera  :D

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Hesperia,Southern CA (High Desert area). Zone 8b

Elevation; about 3600 ft.

Lowest temp. I can expect each year 19/20*f lowest since I've been growing palms *13(2007) Hottest temp. Each year *106

Maxim Enthusiast

Maxim

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chamaedoreas.........and only they

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Rickybobby Veteran

Rickybobby

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The sabal and the trachycarpus because is the first ones I saw when driving south when younger and excited me about the warm weather to come. 

And of course the good old coconut

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oasis371 Proficient

oasis371

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Lady palm (Rhapis) and Kentia (Howea) for inside the house and Roystonea outside. 

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Cape Garrett Proficient

Cape Garrett

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Right now...Pritchardia pacifica.  Love this tropical fan leaf palm.

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Darold Petty Grand Master

Darold Petty

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Here is another attribute of Hedyscepe.  I was away from my garden for a few days and returned to this!  The color in this image is slightly incorrect.  We have a lot of wildfire smoke in the air imparting reddish brown color , this image shows the flower buds as orange-red, when they are truly  more yellow brown. 

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San Francisco, California

Tracy Grand Master

Tracy

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I struggled to select just one species, but with a walk around the garden settled on a Copernicia x textillis (aka C. baileyana x hospita).  It has grown nicely this summer and I love the shape it's holding.  Ask me in a couple of days, and I will likely select one of two different Chambeyronia palms which are just barely opening a new leaf today.  My wife selected a palm she won about 3 years ago in a raffle at our local YMCA, a Dypsis decaryi.  Compared to many of my palms its been a speed demon and she is very proud of it!

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33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

Tracy Grand Master

Tracy

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ahh... the day has changed and so has my favorite palm.  Chambeyronia  houailou gets the top spot due to that nice shape and color of the newly opening frond.  A little different perspective is provided courtesy of a 15mm fisheye lens.

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33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

TexasColdHardyPalms Grand Master

TexasColdHardyPalms

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@Tracy Usually plants/trees go through an ugly duckling stage when young before growing into their full beauty.  To me Dypsis Decaryi are the opposite as they look amazing when young, as pictured above,  but ugly when they turn into triangle palms.  IMO they should have called it the Puppy Palm...

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Kim Grand Master

Kim

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Today for my favorite palm I choose Clinostigma samoense.

I love the color of the trunk and crownshaft as well as the full, graceful crown  

 

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Josue Diaz Grand Master

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I'm currently obsessed with copernicia, but as with @DoomsDave, that changes with the wind. 

 

@Tracy that copernicia! :wub:

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Jupiter1 Community Regular

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  On 8/22/2018 at 12:28 PM, DoomsDave said:

But, if I had only limited space so what I could have room to plant and look at is limited: Dypsis leptocheilos, for starters.

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Right on Dave!

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