Anyone tracking Butia bonetti?

[VA Palmer]

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)

 

[DallasPalms]

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, 2020 by DallasPalms

[necturus]

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?

[VA Palmer]

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 ...?

[GregVirginia7]

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

[Vic]

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.