Trio ID

[Gileno Machado]

I bought a few palm seedlings more than a year ago, at a specialty nursery here and they were all labeled as Veitchias, but some of them may be also something else. The owner of the nursery didn't know the species, and they came from another State, in the south.

I decided to plant them in the ground as a trio some time ago, using as the third the tallest one from a different species, just to break the monotony... Now I've germinated from seed other species of Veitchias but they are still small...I plan to keep planting these palms here because they are doing  great...Can anyone please ID these ?

[Gileno Machado]

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[Gileno Machado]

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[Gileno Machado]

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[Jeff Searle]

Veitchia's for sure. But which ones, would really be impossible to say. Specially when they can self pollinate with each other.

[jam99]

Gileno, absolutely beautiful and it's gonna get even better when they attain certain height in the years (in your climate months) to come. Cheers, Jan

[Gileno Machado]

Thanks Jeff, Jan...

Not many Veitchia fans/growers in this board hmm?

Fairchild's best: (and hurricane proof too !!)

[Davidl]

Not sure about hurricane proof but they do good with 100 mile an hour winds.Before

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[SubTropicRay]

yes veitchia.

[cfkingfish]

Vizzle fo' shizzle. Like Jeff said, getting a species name will be downright painful. I think one of the most common palms at Fairchild is Veitchia sp. (pronounced "spuh").

[epicure3]

veitchias are definitely my favorite palm (of the day, anyways).

Here's a couple of mine

[BobbyinNY]

so what's the difference between Veitchia and Adonidia Merrilli?? Looks exactly the same to me.

[Brian]

I can not tell the difference either but I'm assuming that mines a Adonidia Merrilli.

Could one of you be kind enough to verify its ID?

[Jeff Searle]

Brian,

   These look just like Adonidia,for sure.

[Walter John]

(Gileno Machado @ Aug. 01 2006,11:53)

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Thanks Jeff, Jan...

Not many Veitchia fans/growers in this board hmm?

Fairchild's best: (and hurricane proof too !!)

My favorite palm, I have 1 x V.winin, 2 x V.mcdanielsii, 1 x V.montgomeryana and 3 x V.joannis.

[Walter John]

(BobbyinNY @ Aug. 01 2006,13:59)

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so what's the difference between Veitchia and Adonidia Merrilli?? Looks exactly the same to me.

Adonidia merrilli was formerly under the Veitchia genus.

[Davidl]

BobbyinNY the trunk on the Veitchia and the Adonidia look diferent. Ill try to post a pick of both with a close up of the trunk.

[cfkingfish]

To stifle the Veitchia confusion, this is what I take for the truth:

V. macdanielsii, arecina, montgomeryana are all one species under V. arecina now.

Adonidia and Veitchia merrilli are the same plant. They have gone back and forth a few times between genera, and will probably continue to do so in the future.