What would you value this wine Palm - Jubaea chilensis

[mydateplams]

Trying to get an idea the value of this Jubaea chilensis.  About 25ft+ of trunk and 10ft wide. Been in the ground 40 years from a 15gl pot. My guess around 55years old?  

Have a friend thinking of selling it. Location Vista CA

[Billeb]

Wow! Cool tree for sure. Crazy how long those take to get that size. 
I got nothin but interested to see how much people estimate. 
 

-dale

[mydateplams]

I have never seen one this large outside of a Zoo or Botanical Garden. I'm thinking around $1000 a foot trunk. My guess is $25k plus cost to move it @ another $6k+.

[Chester B]

Usually with huge palms you get nothing for them, due to the amount of $$ on labor, cranes, trucking, etc.  Big Jubaea may be a different story though.  You might want to contact Golden gate palms in SF, I know they've done that sort of thing before.

[96720]

Phil at jungle music could give you an idea 

[Silas_Sancona]

..Paging @Ken Johnson

[Xerarch]

That's usually the kind of thing that is very costly to buy but not very lucrative to sell.

[sonoranfans]

I'm guessing more like at least 10k to dig, transport and plant.   That massive thing must weigh 6-8 tons with a rootball.  The trunk alone at 15' high and about 3 1/2'-4' in diameter would be 4 tons in water alone(@70% water) add a few tons for the root ball and you have 6-8 tons of palm.  If you take measurements the volume of the trunk is pi*height*r^2.  water is 64lb per cubic foot and I get 144-188 ft^3 volume depending on diameter 3.5-4'.  pi*15*2^2=188ft^3.    that is 12,032 lb and 70%(water) of that is 8400lbs.  the trunk is the heaviest part of a palm and the weight goes up with the square of the diameter.  for example a similarly sized 15' tall royal trunk of 2' diameter will be only 1/4 the weight.   I have no idea what that is worth in the california market.

[mydateplams]

I have Gary Gragg

President, Golden Gate Palms & Exotics, Inc.

https://www.goldengatepalms.com/palms

 

Coming at the end of the month.

 

[Collectorpalms]

Buy it so it isn’t sent to the Dallas Aquarium to suffer. 
To me it’s priceless cause I can’t grow it with my soil. And city water.  I tried a 15 gallon and regretted it. 

[Jim in Los Altos]

Great Wine palm but that looks like 6 feet of trunk, not 25 feet. If access to it is good and without obstacles, there are likely tree movers that will be interested in it. Due to the cost of removal. The price your friend gets will be a lot lower than the price a new customer will end up paying for it. 

[mydateplams]

Collectorpalms I will buy it once I get my GoFundMe account setup  Maybe I can do a contract and everyone owns 1% of it..  

[Las Palmas Norte]

I wouldn't even want to pay for the cost of moving it.

[quaman58]

My opinion is that the risk of losing it due to the dig severely impacts the price that it might otherwise command. It’s risky business, as Jeff in Modesto can attest when moving his awesome D. decipiens. 

[JohnAndSancho]

7 hours ago, mydateplams said:

I have Gary Gragg

President, Golden Gate Palms & Exotics, Inc.

https://www.goldengatepalms.com/palms

 

Coming at the end of the month.

 

I look forward to the inevitable YouTube video 

[Will]

Poor thing if its gonna be moved. It seems to be really healthy, moving it would be too risk in my opinion. 

[bubba]

A beautiful palm that I would never consider moving! I find Charles Darwin’s 1832 commentary curious:

“These palms are, for their family, ugly trees. Their trunk is very large end of a curious form, being thicker in the middle than the base or top.”

One in the Kew was 62 feet tall when it was cut down in 2013 because it threatened the glass top. Once again, a beautiful palm.

[mydateplams]

The story is the owner is retiring landscape designer and would like to get rid of some of his stock and also he would like to sit on the patio and look out over the view but the palm blocks half of it.