New Palm seeds

[Gileno Machado]

I've been very lucky lately and received several palm seeds in last weeks, some of them from friends in this Forum:

Borassus flabelifer, from India (Kris)

Livistona mariae, Copernicia hospita and Syagrus comosa, from Thailand (rthink)

Pinanga javana, from Spain (CarloSpain)

Sommieria elegans, from Australia (Palmsforpleasure)

Dypsis rivularis, Coccothrinax moaensis, C. macroglossa (bought from RPS)

Linospadix macrostachya, Hydriastele wendlandiana (bought from Trebrown)

I wonder what new palm seeds is everyone trying at the moment (well, for those who like to attempt germination...)

[Kris]

Dear Gileano  

how coincidental even i was about to start a thread like this

one ! thanks for reducing us our work load in creating a

new thread all togather...

first of all a big thank you to you,

Max,Komikrit,Wendi,Kami(Jason)...etc the list is huge but forgive me if anyboday's names are left out.its purely unintentional...

since iam a person who cannot rememeber my own cell number,its way too difficult for me to remember those seed

names which were usually written in botanical terms ?

i will first make a catalogue of the seeds or in some case

grown-up plant specimens have also come to me from the

above names.

i have lost a few terrefic friends in past,but seeing more

and more friends around in this place and their good-will

gesture that i must posses the best of their lands,at times

reduce the pains of the past and also thank god for giving

me an oppurtunity to see some really nice people from around the globe.

though iam stuck with little of real estate space..but these plants could really adore some of our parks & gardens in

& around madras.

And if our modulator is reading this post..i must say that

palmtalk.org/ is a god given gift to all palm lovers,hobbiest,

enthuiest from around the world !

and after joinnig and seeing some of our members gardens

their tastes,their attitudes,all call for room for improvement

in my attitudes as such..

so a big thankyou to our board & working comitte of this

fabalous forum.and a hug to you Mr.Dean.

Lots of love,

Kris  

[MattyB]

An interesting one that Matt in SD, Gary Levine and I are trying is the highland Raphia (Raphia ruwenzorika) not exactly sure on the spelling.  Matt & Gary ordered them from RPS.  No sprouts yet.  Anyone else have any luck with these guys yet?

[junglegalfla]

I am patiently waiting for some fresh red sealing palm seeds to sprout. Jeff in Costa Rica shared some with Ray and I when he came to the states recently.

Ray have yours sprouted?

[Matt in SD]

Those are interesting lists.  I should start networking more on here!  So little time though...

As Matt mentioned, we're trying to sprout Raphia ruwenzorica.

I'm also working on:

Satranala decussilvae (Ortanique 5/10 germinated so far)

Dypsis mcdonaldiana (Ortanique 2/50 so far)

Dypsis schatzii (RPS, too early to say much)

Dypsis corniculata (RPS, too early to say)

Licuala spinosa (I collected in Hawaii, nothing after a few months, but the seeds were FRESH)

Dypsis baronii (I collected in Hawaiii same as the Licuala above, but 1 "sort of germinated")

2 different uknown Pritchardias from Hilo Zoo (one very nice one).  I only got one seed from each, most were rotten, but one just sprouted a few days ago...I'm stoked!

[indie]

This is a great section; it's always fun to see and share what people are growing...especially exotics.

I've added notations, if anyone is growing or has grown the same please share advise.

I'm growing:

Cryosoperma balansae

- trichospadix - hard to germinate. Could be seed quality issue.

Latania vershaffeltii

Latania lontaroides

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii

- polyphyllus

- spicatus

Dypsis pinnatifrons

- utilis

- onilahensis

- rivularis

Coccothrinax salvatoris - both seem to be greenhouse finicky

- borhidiana

Licuala lauterbachii

- cabalionii

Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Voanioala gerardii - these are exceptionally hard to germinate, 4 out of 30.

[RainForestt Robert]

I have slowed down on the acquisition of seeds since I really have no space to eventually plant the sprouts.  But I do have 10 seeds each of:

Licuala mapu

Licuala cordata

Using the baggie method for these with moist sphagnum moss + a lot of patience.

Robert

[Really full garden]

I am still getting seeds for my beach garden and am starting to order seeds for my new garden in the volcanoes (almost)at 800m.All seeds are from RPS or Ortanique.

Arenga hookeriana

Borassus aethiopum

Caryota gigas

Clinostigma ponapensis

Dypsis leptocheilos

Hyophorbe lagenicaulis x verschaffeltii

Pinanga dicksonii

Pseudophoenix lediniana

Calyptrocalyx elegans

Wallichia disticha

Ravenea sambiranensis

Welfia regia

I am also germinating seeds from palms in my garden

Areca triandra

Pinanga coronata

Thrinax parviflora

Licuala lauterbachii

Livistona saribus

Wodyetia bifurcata

I sometimes wish I could go to the nurseries and plant sales often mentioned in this forum and buy any palm my pocket book would allow.When I came to Guatemala almost twenty years ago I was disappointed to find that very few palms were available so I had to learn how to grow what I wanted from seed.I have grown to enjoy this process and find great pleasure from ordering the seeds and waiting for them to arrive.

                                                                    Scott

[FossilNypa]

Right now my brother and I are trying,

Polyandrococos caudescens (not yet germinated)

Raphia taedigera (3 seedlings)

Attalea butyracea (not yet germinated)

Chamaedorea tepejilote (2 seedlings)

Chamaedorea plumosa (3 seedlings)

Copernicia alba (8 seedlings)

Phoenix pusilla (1 seedling)

Hyophorbe langenicaulis (1 seedling)

Licuala grandis (not yet germinated)

Cyphophoenix elegans (germinating)

Be sowing soon:

Bactris gasipaes

Asterogyne martiana

Areca triandra

Reinhartia gracilis

Basselinia gracilis

Pholidostachys pulchra

[Gileno Machado]

Nice to know what you folks are trying...

A few comments:

Cyrtostachys renda (sealing wax) seed is famous for its short period of viability. I've tried these 3 times with no success so far (but I live 2 weeks "postally" distant from the dealers...).

I had no luck with the small dypsis schatzii seeds...I even thought one of them had sprouted but it was a weed plant instead  

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii and polyphyllus germinate fast, but they don't develop in cocopeat and decline if not properly repotted.

Voanioala gerardii's seeds are horribly sleepy indeed. Zero sprouts after a year or so. Same with Lemurophoenix, but they all still seem to be viable, sinking, etc  (Would I better try to bang crack them, re-soak in warm water or try to increase the temperature??)

Hyophorbe lag x versch is another no-go here for me. Twice disappointed already.

Most Licualas are slow and sporadic germinators but I found L. mapu seeds to sprout fast and almost at the same time in my moist cocopeat.

Cyphophoenix elegans are strong fast germinators here too.

[Patrick]

In the mail presently is Brahea decumbens, Linospadix monostachya and L. apetiolata.

Sprouting now is Arenga micrantha, A. hookeri, A. australasica, a bunch of different chamaedoreas, Trachycarpus latisectus. Last but not least I have 4 little surprise sprouts in the spot where I was dumping my assumedly non viable seeds and dirt. A nice surprise indeed! I just wish I knew what they were. They ought to be either Trachy. princeps or some sort of Chamaedorea. Hopefully it's the first one!

[Logolight]

right now in the containers:

Ptychosperma elegans

Roystonea elata

Hyophorbe lagenicaulis

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii

Arenga tremula

Caryota cumingii

Chamaedorea ernesti-augustii

Chamaedorea glaucifolia

Licuala orbicularis

Socratea exorrhiza

Phoenix reclinata

Livistonia decipiens

Butia capitata

Sabal palmeto

[Gbarce]

I am trying out :

Coccothrinax Borhidiana

Coccothrinax Crinita - has a lot of fungus attacks!!!

Chambeyronia Macrocarpa

Livistonia Decipiens

Phoenix Reclinata

Phaphis Multifida

Licuala Mapu

Licuala Orbicularis

Caryota Zebrina

Caryota Ophiopellis

Licuala sp

Trithrinax Campestirs

Brahea Aramata

[TikiRick]

I have some sprouted Phoenix reclinata x roebellini. Interesting seeds from a friend's very mature (50 years +) specimen palm.

[Trópico]

Done! germinating:

-Areca vestiaria 'maroon' (about 4)

-Dypsis lastelliana (about 1/2 dozen)

-Kentiopsis magnifica (4 slooow individuals, 1 seed left)

-Livistona rigida (a whole bunch)

Currently germinating or very very small pre-first leaf:

Iguanura palmuncula (many)

Hydriastele pinangoides (many)

Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana (many)

Hydriastele beguinii (4 nice survivors)

Hydriastele sp. 'East Sepik' (only one, another that popped damped off)

Welfia regia (after a month of nothingness TWO are putting out root)

Dypsis prestoniana (nothing yet)

L. mapu (rotted )

D. 'Pink CS' (nothing yet)

Two coffee seeds from Eric's Leu Gardens sprouted!

[Alberto]

Trachycarpus princeps

 Rophallostyllis sapida (from hardier strain from Benn - NZ)

 Beccariophoenix alfredii

 Dypsis ambositrae (the real deal ???? RPS)

 Khalamus khasianus

 Nannorhops kasmir

 King palms from Urbenville --sprouting!!!!

 Brahea berlandieri

 ETC.......