Arenga hookeriana

[akamu]

This is one that caught my eye when I got my first encyclopedia of palms years ago .I like the unusual fronds. For my climate I am happy it is growing ok not quite Hawaiian quality but stoked nonetheless. Please share pictures of yours 

[OC2Texaspalmlvr]

34 minutes ago, akamu said:

This is one that caught my eye when I got my first encyclopedia of palms years ago .I like the unusual fronds.

Couldn't agree more, Arenga sp in general all have cool fronds to me. I only have the more common A.Engleri myslef 

[Palm Tree Jim]

Nice plant!
 

No pictures to post since I don’t have one.....

[akamu]

Thanks guys this was grown from a local Tree in Dennis willoughby's Garden Matt Petrocelli grew the seed then I purchased a 1 gallon from him about 2+ years ago. I also like A engleri they have a great form and nice smelling flowers 

[Brian]

Here is one of mine. Its been a bit neglected and probably gets too much sun.

[joe_OC]

Nice palms, gents.

One of the few palms still on my list. 

[saradanyal94]

I had a normal sized one planted in the ground and it was looking really good but while I was away from home for six months it suffered badly from the lack of water and about half of the stems died.

[Darold Petty]

Saradanyal94, Welcome to Palmtalk !  

[akamu]

11 hours ago, Brian said:

Here is one of mine. Its been a bit neglected and probably gets too much sun.

Brian your palm looks great considering it is getting sun. I don't think mine could handle sun where I live. How old is your palm?

[akamu]

Saradanyal94 welcome to palmtalk and thanks for your input We would like to see some pictures if you have some. 

[realarch]

This one gets very little sun, robust grower, and I need to thin it out. Probably 10 years old and just a spectacular palm. 

Tim

[akamu]

That looks fantastic Tim the fronds remind me of the hands on creature from the black lagoon 

[mwardlow]

Here is mine also from Matt P. Hated being in a pot but really started to grow as soon as I planted it. Put's out  variegated new leaves that green up with age.

[akamu]

Cool to see another plant grown from California seed it looks like yours has flowered? Does yours get sun exposure? 

[Brian]

On 5/20/2020 at 11:23 AM, akamu said:

Brian your palm looks great considering it is getting sun. I don't think mine could handle sun where I live. How old is your palm?

I purchased the seeds from a member here about 7 years ago. 

[mwardlow]

Mine is in full shade on the north side of the fence.

[Cedric]

The leaf is quit variable in this species. I've seen some with relatively huge wide leaves and others with very strapy narrow leaves, others almost round, some with very long leaf tips, tall very upright narrow paddle shaped leaves some not even entire. Oblong, pointed, heart shaped all sorts. Which makes it very interesting. I found one with extremely large wide arching leaves, it's still just a few stems but looking immaculate already.  I'm looking for the upright one as it looks like it could be very attractive, the silver undersides very obvious........soon as I can travel again. Grrrr Malaysia and Thailand still closed for flights out of here. 

Pixle : courtesy Banchong

 

[Patrick]

This is probably already known by many but I found out the hard way: when you go to clean the fruit off the seeds, wear gloves!

[oasis371]

I have only grown the Arenga engleri species.  It may come as a surprise, but it also does well in a pot indoors. Mine has successfully overwintered either in a warm basement or chilly garage. It seems like they are understory palms so don't need the strongest of light and ever growth rate is decent for this clumping palm. You can really see the relationship between Caryota (Fishtail palms) and some of the Arenga posted above.

[akamu]

8 hours ago, Patrick said:

when you go to clean the fruit off the seeds, wear gloves!

 I have heard about the irritation that can happen so what was your experience with this 

[akamu]

6 hours ago, oasis371 said:

I have only grown the Arenga engleri species.  It may come as a surprise, but it also does well in a pot indoors. Mine has successfully overwintered either in a warm basement or chilly garage. It seems like they are understory palms so don't need the strongest of light and ever growth rate is decent for this clumping palm. You can really see the relationship between Caryota (Fishtail palms) and some of the Arenga posted above.

 

[akamu]

That's great you're able to grow this nice palm tree

[tropicbreeze]

Thought I'd add a few of mine. The first two are growing in partial shade but don't get enough water, except during the wet season.

 

 

This one gets a lot more water throughout the year but is probably too heavily shaded.

[Merlyn]

I bought two Arenga Hookeriana from an eBay seller a couple of months ago, and I have them in 1G pots in my nursery area in filtered sun.  The two at Leu Gardens went through the 2009-2010 extended freeze with minimal damage at 29F, so I'm hopeful that I can grow these here in NW Orlando.  The similar Arenga Caudata also had almost no damage at the same 29F extended lows, and is listed on KinzyJr's spreadsheet with significant damage at 26F.  So it seems like both of these could be a good 9B palm, but maybe not a 9A palm.

Does anyone have experience with these in sunnier spots?  I have a spot where it would be shaded by an 8' tall multi-trunk Beaucarnea (Nolina) Recurvata from AM sun, but it would get randomly full sun from about 1PM-4PM.  I don't want to burn these, but at the moment I don't have any shady spots that are in "prime viewing areas" from the back porch.

[Jriddlev]

Has anyone tried keeping this as an indoor palm? I have one that I’m going to give a try. I do not have any good shade spots to plant it in the yard (yet) and it doesn’t get seen enough sitting in my small shade house.