I have searched the forums for bonetti, but haven't found much.  I want to try zone pushing the most cold hardy Butia - which seems to be bonetti.  On the greater web, I find one shop in Brittany, France that says that they will notify me if they get any in:

Butia bonetti (achat-vente-palmiers.com)

 

I think i see one growing nearby in Dallas all by its lonesome... it has an enormous thick trunk and appears to be pretty old but just 3 or feet taller than me I think. It looked shabby when I saw it in the spring then suddenly a huge crown when I passed by recently... 

Edited December 10, 20205 yr by DallasPalms

There is a library near me that has a few palms planted by a palm nut, and I read that one is a B. bonetti. I visited and wasn't terribly impressed by it - just looked like any other Butia. Also didn't check to see if there were seeds, etc.

I thought I read at one point that there is an another name for this?

26 minutes ago, necturus said:

There is a library near me that has a few palms planted by a palm nut, and I read that one is a B. bonetti. I visited and wasn't terribly impressed by it - just looked like any other Butia. Also didn't check to see if there were seeds, etc.

I thought I read at one point that there is an another name for this?

Yes regarding name, but I can't figure it out.  Apparently there was a back and fortgh about the true botanical name.  Texts from the 2000's call it bonetti or bonnetti, but more recent post say that the bonetti name was changed to ...?

Been searching...very hard to find...any luck since this thread opened?

I posted in another thread, but Butia bonetti is not a valid/ accepted name which may explain why you have had no luck finding it. I remember it being used 10-15 years ago. It’s one of the smaller Butias (not a dwarf) and it is actually what we know as catarinensis.