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My wife and I went looking for some new plants today and found several interesting palms. We would love some IDs for these.

Palm #1

This is a MASSIVE fan palm. 6'2 me for scale. The leaves that had fallen on the ground had small black thorns the size of small shark teeth.

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Palm #2

The people here call this a Hawaiian Palm, but Google has proven this local name to be useless. I suspect it's a foxtail palm. This lady dug up some spouts for us and we planted them in a pot with a royal palm sprout.

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Palm #3

The vendor called this a Madagascar Palm, but once again this local name offered no help with Google. She gave us a bunch of free sprouts that grew from seeds that fell on the ground. She said this palm grows fast. 

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After some more looking around I think palm #3 is a dypsis madagascariensis

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My semi-educated attempts at identification:

1) Some species of Corypha? It's hard to tell with a photo that is essentially a silhouette.

2) Wodyetia bifurcata, Foxtail palm. Not from Hawaii. The only palms native to Hawaii are species of Pritchardia.

3) Some species of Veitchia (arecina ?). Not from Madagascar. Dypsis leaflets typically come to a point not a jagged edge. The inflorescence also looks like Veitchia with a few large red seeds barely visible.

It looks like there are Foxtails growing in the proximity of Veitchia. There is a reasonable possibility that seeds from either may produce hybrids of the two.

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8 hours ago, Valhallalla said:

My semi-educated attempts at identification:

1) Some species of Corypha? It's hard to tell with a photo that is essentially a silhouette.

2) Wodyetia bifurcata, Foxtail palm. Not from Hawaii. The only palms native to Hawaii are species of Pritchardia.

3) Some species of Veitchia (arecina ?). Not from Madagascar. Dypsis leaflets typically come to a point not a jagged edge. The inflorescence also looks like Veitchia with a few large red seeds barely visible.

It looks like there are Foxtails growing in the proximity of Veitchia. There is a reasonable possibility that seeds from either may produce hybrids of the two.

1) Darn I wish I could've gotten a better pic! I was too lazy to retrieve the phone from my wife and take closeup pics of the leaves. Maybe this saturated pic will make it easier to tell, but I don't know if it will be good enough:

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2) Yeah I figured it had nothing to do with Hawaii lol. I guess it's just a name for marketing here. Unfortunately its usage is so widespread its the only name the vendors know. I always suspected it was a foxtail and it's nice to have some vindication!

3) Ah, interesting! There were a couple of Veitchias and Foxtails growing very close to each other. It would be cool to have our first hybrid palm :) 

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