Palms that don't seed much.

[redant]

In seeing Tracy's thread about palm seeds, I used to love when I'd get seeds but as my garden has matured and there is little room for more palms I'm into palms that don't rain millions of seeds and seedlings everywhere.  Here a start list of the palms that for me have been very easy on the seeds, some after many years in the garden haven't seeded at all. Feel free to add yours.

Ravenea rivularis

dypsis pembana

dypsis mananjarensis

Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Rhapis Excelsa

Hyophorbe indica

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii

Hyophorbe "Silver Lady"

Areca catechu

Bactris gasipaes

Ravenea glauca

Pseudophoenix sargentii

almost anything Coccothrinax

Attalea cohune

I'm sure I have more that haven't come to mind yet. These are all mature palms, not little ones.

[Moose]

22 minutes ago, redant said:

In seeing Tracy's thread about palm seeds, I used to love when I'd get seeds but as my garden has matured and there is little room for more palms I'm into palms that don't rain millions of seeds and seedlings everywhere.  Here a start list of the palms that for me have been very easy on the seeds, some after many years in the garden haven't seeded at all. Feel free to add yours.

Ravenea rivularis

dypsis pembana

dypsis mananjarensis

Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Rhapis Excelsa

Hyophorbe indica

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii

Hyophorbe "Silver Lady"

Areca catechu

Bactris gasipaes

Ravenea glauca

Pseudophoenix sargentii

almost anything Coccothrinax

Attalea cohune

I'm sure I have more that haven't come to mind yet. These are all mature palms, not little ones.

My Dypsis pembana had never seeded although quite large, until this year. Seed looks just like Dypsis cabadae. Little red "tick tac" sized seeds. Only noticed because they were on the sidewalk and made me look up. They disappear into the mulch

[sonoranfans]

2 hours ago, Moose said:

My Dypsis pembana had never seeded although quite large, until this year. Seed looks just like Dypsis cabadae. Little red "tick tac" sized seeds. Only noticed because they were on the sidewalk and made me look up. They disappear into the mulch

My (solitary) pembana had 20-25lb of fruit this year, that fruit brought a bunch of fighting squirrels in to get it.  Its solitary with a second growpoint above the soil due to spear pull (10 years ago) so the fruit from 2 growpoints was messy.  I had to cut off the stalks to get rid of the squirrels.   The pembana went to seed from a 1 gallon faster than any crownshaft in my yard.

[Frond-friend42]

Mule palm.

Burtia x syagrus.

[PalmatierMeg]

My Dypsis pembanas drop seeds by the 1,000s. And all of them germinate. My two female Ravenea rivularis drop infertile red seeds everywhere. Most of my Coccothrinax drop 1,000s of seeds. A few don't - Azul, proctorii, argentea. My spindle palms would drop 1,000s of little black seeds if I let them but none ever germinated. My bottle palms flower but the seeds all abort before ripening.

Other than pembana, cabadae & lanceolata, none of my Dypsis have ever flowered. All of my Livistona decora are female, so do not produce viable seeds.

 

[Kim]

10 years and no seeds: Dypsis canaliculata (as labeled), Welfia regia, Tahina spectabilis 

9 years and no seeds: Lemurophoenix halleuxii, Metroxylon amicarum, Marojejya darianii, Dypsis carlsmithii, Dypsis lastelliana, Dypsis hovomantsina, Caryota zebrina, Dictyocarium lamarckianum, Ireartea deltoidea

8 years and no seeds: Voanioala gerardii, Carpoxylon macrospermum, Licuala grandis, Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Most are slow growing palms, to very slow growing. But, then, I've only been growing them for 8 to 10 years. All other palms planted 10 years ago are producing seed, but some are easier to manage than others. Cyrtostachys renda, not a problem yet. Areca catechu dwarf, large seeds and easy to manage. Kerriodoxa elegans, etc.

The palms so prolific they produce "ground cover" seedlings: Areca vestiaria, Loxococcus rupicola, and it's looking like Dypsis prestoniana will be similar! 

[redant]

I'll add for me, 

Kentiopsis oliviformis

Satakentia liukiuensis

Beccariophoenix, all

 

Interesting about the pembana, I have several, one a good 20ft tall, never even flowered. 

Worst ever is Carpentaria acuminata, love the palm but the seed, billions and billions.

 

 

[Frond-friend42]

1 hour ago, Kim said:

10 years and no seeds: Dypsis canaliculata (as labeled), Welfia regia, Tahina spectabilis 

9 years and no seeds: Lemurophoenix halleuxii, Metroxylon amicarum, Marojejya darianii, Dypsis carlsmithii, Dypsis lastelliana, Dypsis hovomantsina, Caryota zebrina, Dictyocarium lamarckianum, Ireartea deltoidea

8 years and no seeds: Voanioala gerardii, Carpoxylon macrospermum, Licuala grandis, Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Most are slow growing palms, to very slow growing. But, then, I've only been growing them for 8 to 10 years. All other palms planted 10 years ago are producing seed, but some are easier to manage than others. Cyrtostachys renda, not a problem yet. Areca catechu dwarf, large seeds and easy to manage. Kerriodoxa elegans, etc.

The palms so prolific they produce "ground cover" seedlings: Areca vestiaria, Loxococcus rupicola, and it's looking like Dypsis prestoniana will be similar! 

Nice collection!