Hydriastele splendida

[realarch]

From Papua New Guinea, this is a beautiful garden palm. Scale is perfect, never gets too large and the canes can be trimmed from the clump every now and then. Not the bug magnet that some of the other palms in the genus are, at least in my garden. The leaves are thick like leather and a pretty fast grower as well. 

Here are a few photos. 

Tim

[Hilo Jason]

Wow!  That is nice. Looks similar to H. Flabulata. 

Speaking of Hydriastele, do you have Kasesa in your garden?  I just planted 3 at our new property as part of a hedge. 

[realarch]

Aloha Jason! H. flabellata was renamed ‘ splendida.’ 
I do have H. kasesa, nice palm, but for a hedge……hmmmmm. The canes grow to about 10’ and not much growth below like Pinanga coronata. 
I’ll post a photo in a couple, in Honolulu for a few days. 
Tim

[Hilo Jason]

1 hour ago, realarch said:

Aloha Jason! H. flabellata was renamed ‘ splendida.’ 
I do have H. kasesa, nice palm, but for a hedge……hmmmmm. The canes grow to about 10’ and not much growth below like Pinanga coronata. 
I’ll post a photo in a couple, in Honolulu for a few days. 
Tim

Ok good to know!  

No rush on the photos. Hope you have a good time on Oahu 

[mike in kurtistown]

Jason,  I'll help Tim out with this one. Picture of what I'm growing as Hydriastele kasesa from my upper deck. Backstory: Herminio, of Herminio's Nursery outside of Rio at the Brazil biennial, hesitated  a few seconds and then introduced these as Hydriastele "ceasia". Looking the name up later, I found that there was no such species, but there was a species H. kasesa that looked just like my juveniles (from the seeds that I collected from Herminio's tree). Larger ones planted in 2015, other plants, languishing in pots, I decided to plant in 2020.

[Hilo Jason]

Thanks Mike!

[John hovancsek]

I got this one as splendida but turned out not now I have a 1 gallon that I am going to plant soon but still don’t have the right spot yet. The one me in the pic grows great but gets to much sun

[Really full garden]

I have one growing in my beach garden and it does surprisingly well .

[realarch]

Nice to see you post agin Scott! You ought to post a photo or two.

Tim

[Kim]

I have one of these sitting in a pot, too. Couldn't decide where it should live permanently, but thanks to John's note, I'll look for a spot without too much sun exposure.