So What Caught Your Eye Today?

[happypalms]

Male chamaedorea plumosa flowers!

[Harry’s Palms]

@happypalms Pac-Man ! Nice photo. Harry

[knell]

Coccothrinax

Clinostigma gronophyllum

[JohnAndSancho]

Sancho inspecting my Trachy planting. I think he says it's in a good spot with afternoon sun so hopefully it turns into a fat chunky one instead of a hairy Washy looking one. 

[knell]

the transitional leaf stage of this Loxococcus rupicola

[Visgoth]

This large, tall Pheonix Rupicola in a neighbor's front yard. It may be a hybrid of some sort, but it certainly has mostly rupicola genes if that is the case. Regardless a gorgeous not commonly seen palm in my area.

[knell]

Borassodendron machadonis

[Hu Palmeras]

8 hours ago, Visgoth said:

Esta gran y alta Pheonix Rupicola en el jardín delantero de un vecino. Puede que sea un híbrido, pero sin duda tiene principalmente genes de rupícola. De todas formas, es una hermosa palmera que no se ve mucho en mi zona.

A very beautiful palm tree. Each Phoenix is special.

[Tracy]

On 9/3/2025 at 4:04 PM, Tracy said:

My wife's favorite palm is our Caryota gigas.  It is probably the most commented on palm in our Carlsbad rental's garden.  It caught my attention when I was over there today. 

The trunk....

[gyuseppe]

17 hours ago, Visgoth said:

This large, tall Pheonix Rupicola in a neighbor's front yard. It may be a hybrid of some sort, but it certainly has mostly rupicola genes if that is the case. Regardless a gorgeous not commonly seen palm in my area.

I love phoenix rupicola, I have 3 in the garden

[happypalms]

A nice variegated rhapis! 

[knell]

im always a sucker for a H beguinii Obi Island silhouette 

[knell]

Chry. prestonianus doing a bit of flowering

[knell]

giving Royals and Lemurs a run for their money

[Hilo Jason]

2 hours ago, knell said:

giving Royals and Lemurs a run for their money

Is that the "Mony Mony" variety in the back area of the garden?  

[TropicsEnjoyer]

On 9/6/2025 at 4:58 PM, knell said:

Borassodendron machadonis

such a unique look to it. Definitely one worth collecting though i’ve heard they’re very fussy. 

also @Visgoththats a beautiful rupicola (hybrid?), almost resembles a coconut with those weepy fronds. 

@Tracyand lastly that Caryota trunk is MASSIVE, what a beast of a palm you have growing there. it’s a real shame these big beautiful fishes don’t last forever, the giant bipinnate leaves are my personal favorite 

[knell]

48 minutes ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

such a unique look to it. Definitely one worth collecting though i’ve heard they’re very fussy.  

i know they can be unreliable as seedlings, but you can also get unlucky while being successful and get only males, which produce pollen that stinks up an entire section of a garden unless you continually prune the inflorescences

1 hour ago, Hilo Jason said:

Is that the "Mony Mony" variety in the back area of the garden?  

thats the one! what a beast. the prestonianus in front and the mananjarensis by the house are starting to catch up

[Hilo Jason]

I have many Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) hybrids in my garden and this is probably my least favorite. But it did catch my eye today. This is a Leptocheillos hybrid. Started as a single then split into two, before trunking. Now after trunking both sides have split again. Strange plant!  Still not sure it’s worth a spot in the garden but I’ll give it some more time. 

[happypalms]

Sabal mauritiformis got a little  eye attention. 

[tim_brissy_13]

Chamaedorea anemophila sending out its first inflorescences. Germinated 2017 but barely grew until I put it in the ground in 2021. Not slow once it has gotten going. 
 

 

[happypalms]

15 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Chamaedorea anemophila sending out its first inflorescences. Germinated 2017 but barely grew until I put it in the ground in 2021. Not slow once it has gotten going. 
 

 

Boy or a girl Tim! That’s the tricky part.

[realarch]

Caught this Chrysalidocarpus hovomantsina in the process of dropping a leaf sheath. Beefy palm, nice color too. 

Tim

[Hu Palmeras]

What a beautiful color of the trunk

[knell]

Leopoldinia pulchra

[Husain]

Yesterday I was arranging more space for additional palms and I saw this palm roots which are monster and stronger than asphalt 

 

 

[knell]

Orania decided to drop this infructescence, i would not want to be standing here when this happens

the top snapped off in the fall but this part is still 6ft

interesting four leaf clover fruit

[happypalms]

A nice Arenga engleri with a native vine growing over it and in flower. 

[happypalms]

Actually this one caught my eye when I looked at the photo again. The variegated lanonia dasyantha, with marojejya darinii in the background. 

[knell]

Manicaria

[Hu Palmeras]

17 minutes ago, knell said:

Manicaria

Very cool my Friend

[Tracy]

I arrived home from work and found a dropped leaf on thr patio.   I looked up to see the newly emerged flower spadix that was hidden underneath it previously.   Chrysalidocarpus onilahensis weepy form. 

[knell]

Metroxylon fruit have a really interesting color if they drop before being 100% ripe

[Tracy]

54 minutes ago, knell said:

Metroxylon fruit have a really interesting color if they drop before being 100% ripe

Something that interesting looking begs the question... is it edible and if so, does it taste better than cardboard?  It reminds me a little bit of the red fruit variety of my Ficus dammaropsis.  Yes, I did try my Ficus dammaropsis fruit once and it tasted a lot like chewing on cardboard.

Given that we eat the fruit of Euterpe oleracea, my question isn't too silly.

[knell]

1 hour ago, Tracy said:

Something that interesting looking begs the question... is it edible and if so, does it taste better than cardboard?  It reminds me a little bit of the red fruit variety of my Ficus dammaropsis.  Yes, I did try my Ficus dammaropsis fruit once and it tasted a lot like chewing on cardboard.

Given that we eat the fruit of Euterpe oleracea, my question isn't too silly.

for the fruit that are completely ripe (dark brown), the answer is a resounding ‘no’, mostly because there is nothing to eat:

however, you piqued my curiosity so i cracked open the one from earlier, and there is definitely a coconut-meat-esque layer in there

i did the foragers test for toxicity and edibility, very bland, smells and tastes like cabbage

i think this will make me readjust my views, the dark brown ones i now consider to be “over ripe”, and these ones are “nearly ripe / ripe”

if a few days go by and i dont post, put “Metroxylon got em!” on the memorial haha

[Hu Palmeras]

7 minutes ago, knell said:

Para las frutas que están completamente maduras (de color marrón oscuro), la respuesta es un rotundo 'no', sobre todo porque no hay nada para comer:

Sin embargo, despertaste mi curiosidad, así que abrí el de antes y definitivamente hay una capa parecida a la pulpa de coco allí.

Hice la prueba de recolección de residuos para determinar su toxicidad y comestibilidad; es muy insípido y huele y sabe a repollo.

Creo que esto me hará reajustar mi perspectiva. Los de color marrón oscuro ahora los considero “demasiado maduros”, y estos están “casi maduros/maduros”.

Si pasan unos días y no publico, pongan "¡Metroxylon los consiguió!" en el monumento jaja

Hey, friend, what a tremendous fruit and seed. I've never seen anything like it. You have a great seed to germinate. I hope it doesn't take too much work for you.

[knell]

25 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Hey, friend, what a tremendous fruit and seed. I've never seen anything like it. You have a great seed to germinate. I hope it doesn't take too much work for you.

gracias friend, i work for Floribunda so these belong to Jeff and Suchin, which thankfully means they are in the best possible situation for being sprouted and added to someone’s garden in the future!

[Hu Palmeras]

2 minutes ago, knell said:

Gracias amigo, trabajo para Floribunda, así que pertenecen a Jeff y Suchin, lo que afortunadamente significa que están en la mejor situación posible para germinar y agregar al jardín de alguien en el futuro.

I can imagine, my friend. I should see your happy face when these magnificent seeds germinate. I hope you'll send us photos of the germination.

[Hu Palmeras]

On 11/9/2025 at 3:01, knell said:

Orania decidió dejar caer esta infrutescencia, no me gustaría estar aquí cuando esto suceda.

La parte superior se rompió en la caída, pero esta parte todavía mide 6 pies.

interesante fruto del trébol de cuatro hojas

What an abundance of seeds, my friend. I hope you upload more photos.

[Hilo Jason]

Ptychococcus (Not sure if it’s Lepidotus or Paradoxus) has been incredibly fast for me and is now setting seed. 

 

[knell]

3 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

What an abundance of seeds, my friend. I hope you upload more photos.

no worries, i have thousands of photos to post. if you would like to see my old archive, i used to post on instagram every day https://www.instagram.com/palm.gallery/

 

Ravenea musicalis… if the fruit is ripe, you have to open them carefully, as they have almost certainly sprouted inside, even the small fruit like this one

Orania palindan

Orania disticha