On 6/29/2021 at 3:25 PM, Tracy said:

Interesting to see some other upright forms like yours Joe.  I always thought of my clump as upright even though the leaflets hang down some, it's not like my solitary which is clearly a weepy.  Maybe my clump is an intermediary form, with not as weepy, but definitely not the upright "V"of a lutescens or ambositrae type of leaf and leaflet.  Clumping versus solitary weepy pictured below.  Perhaps others might think both are weepy forms.

There is a reason why they call it the "onilahensis" complex.  I have on that has similar fronds to your hybrid.  I think mine is a hybrid too.  It's right next to my weepy so you can see the difference.  The trunks look the same though.  I will take a pic tomorrow.  Just came back from business trip.

 

Resurrecting this thread for an update: 

Heres my Onilahensis upright form approx 18 months apart. It went into the ground about 1yr ago as a 5G.  Seems like it’s pretty good growth, I’m happy with it.  It’s not going vertical but looks like it’s working on its clumping. It had just split when I got it and now is working on 5 trunks. 👍
 

West facing, full mid day to afternoon sun. Doesn’t mind a bit. 

(Arch Alexandrae looks terrible but has since recovered and is flourishing.) 

-dale 

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Wow, missed this thread, some impressive specimens growing well. 

I collected some onilahensis ‘drip tip’, ( the name the owner was calling the palm), seed a few years back and I assume they are the ‘weepy’ form shown in some of the photos previously.

I’ll snap a photo in a bit.

Tim

Bumping old thread how does it look today? Do these grow in shade? 

Well, here are a few photos…..only took me three years to post. It certainly didn’t turn out to be the ‘weeping’ form, but nice nevertheless. Huge inflorescence for such a small palm. 

Tim

40 minutes ago, realarch said:

Well, here are a few photos…..only took me three years to post. It certainly didn’t turn out to be the ‘weeping’ form, but nice nevertheless. Huge inflorescence for such a small palm. 

Tim

This is three years of growth? What size did you plant them in the ground, 15 gallon?

1 hour ago, SCVpalmenthusiast said:

This is three years of growth? What size did you plant them in the ground, 15 gallon?

Looks like Hawaii. Growth happens every day of the year in Hawaii. Helps to be tropical, not far from the equator.

Good grief no, I got seed back in 2010, so it took awhile to germinate and get them to plantable size. Hawaii fast, but not that fast. 

Tim

8 hours ago, realarch said:

Good grief no, I got seed back in 2010, so it took awhile to germinate and get them to plantable size. Hawaii fast, but not that fast. 

Tim

Lucky Hawaii growers!

Mine came in a batch of ambositrae seed.  About 50% grew into this thing.  I wondered if it could be a hybrid.  The flower certainly is a dead ringer for ambositrae and nothing like onilahensis weeping that I grow.  Also the inflorescence looks like it is designed to be interfolia (like ambositrae) but presents infrafoliar (like onilanesis) and often falls down or off because of lack of support of the strap-like peduncle.

3 hours ago, richnorm said:

Mine came in a batch of ambositrae seed.  About 50% grew into this thing.  I wondered if it could be a hybrid.  The flower certainly is a dead ringer for ambositrae and nothing like onilahensis weeping that I grow.  Also the inflorescence looks like it is designed to be interfolia (like ambositrae) but presents infrafoliar (like onilanesis) and often falls down or off because of lack of support of the strap-like peduncle.

And from Memory seed is spherical like ambositrae (or weeping onilahensis) rather than pointed like the stiff leaf onilahensis found in habitat. As seedlings having grown your seed (C ambositrae x onilahensis F2 maybe) and the stiff leaf C onilahensis from RPS, they appear quite different at a young age too. 

On 4/27/2026 at 10:05 AM, SCVpalmenthusiast said:

Bumping old thread how does it look today? Do these grow in shade? 

They grow in shade.