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So What Caught Your Eye Today?

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    A spot of pruning and turning around the old kerriodoxa was beaming. And the sallehana is starting to put out a new leaf and likes its new home! 

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    Chrysalidocarpus titan beginning to gain more height. No trunk yet, easily 15ft. tall. Had to get a pic with the blooming vireya.

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    Kim Cyr

    Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
    and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
    All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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    Schippia concolor anyone!

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    Sabal SP. details 

     

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    Cocothrinax eckmanii one tough palm! 

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    Cyphosperma naboutiniense.

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    Tim

    Hilo, Hawaii

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    Probably not that exciting for most palmtalkers, but a healthy Chrysalidocarpus lutescens in my neighbourhood is not common at all. Probably the largest one I know of in all of Melbourne. North facing wall, less than 1km from the beach. The popular opinion is that they don’t grow here but can do ok if conditions suit. 

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    Tim Brisbane

    Patterson Lakes, bayside Melbourne, Australia

    Rarely Frost

    2005 Minimum: 2.6C,  Maximum: 44C

    2005 Average: 17.2C, warmest on record.

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    Couple of nice seedlings iguanura wallichiana, Pinanga sarawakensis. Both will go in the garden one day, and both have survived my winter not a problem! 

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    Licuala peltata var. sumawongii. Spectacular palm with huge leaves. 

    Tim

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    Tim

    Hilo, Hawaii

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    Another one of my Ravenea glauca loving the summer heat. Along with a nice Pinanga coronata.

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    Planting a sabinara magnifica gets my attention today!

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    Planting a sabinara magnifica gets my attention today!

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    Satakentia, trunk is clean, smooth, and straight as an arrow. Looking good in the afternoon sun. 

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    Hilo, Hawaii

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    Common but colourful Radicalis. IMG_8939.thumb.jpeg.a57df24317d8afd06bf4d28e6005598a.jpeg

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    Took Sancho for a hike through the woods today and we saw some interesting tree growth ---

     

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    I have no idea what would cause them to grow like this. Maybe they were wrapped around something years and years ago? Anyway, cool stuff. 

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    2 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

    Took Sancho for a hike through the woods today and we saw some interesting tree growth ---

     

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    I have no idea what would cause them to grow like this. Maybe they were wrapped around something years and years ago? Anyway, cool stuff. 

    The Aliens 👾 did it when they landed! 

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    Another common one, but somewhat rare nowadays for sale! They make a great place for epithyts! The phoenix robelleni is here to stay especially in the cool climates.

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    Another flower coming on my dypsis saintlucei, and the kerriodoxas are loving the heat! 

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    Latania

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    @Husain Quite lovely ! I saw a few varieties of the Latania  Palm when I was in Hawaii , even gathered seeds while I was there but they never germinated. Harry

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    Huge inflorescence on an Arenga micrantha ready to pop at the SF Botanical Garden. Everyone else was there for the magnolias 

     

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    SF, CA

    USDA zone 10a / Sunset zone 17

    Summer avg. high 67°F / 20°C (SF record high 106°F / 41°C)

    Winter avg. low 43°F / 7°C (SF record low 27°F / -3°C)

    480’ / 146m elevation, 2.8 miles / 4.5km from ocean

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    Out walking Sancho and I peek under the cedar tree 

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    And there's a little Sabal. I'm guessing a bird planted this one. I think it's been there for a minute. I can't get much closer with the camera because I've got to move back a bunch of other branches. I guess I need to clear out around it. 

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    Here’s a teddy bear going into rocket mode. It’s gonna gain a lot of height fast after this.

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    6 hours ago, Foggy Paul said:

    Huge inflorescence on an Arenga micrantha ready to pop at the SF Botanical Garden. Everyone else was there for the magnolias 

     

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    Obscenities screamed!!!’

    Hadda cut one of mine down, damn, hard assed wood.

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    9 hours ago, Foggy Paul said:

    Huge inflorescence on an Arenga micrantha ready to pop at the SF Botanical Garden. Everyone else was there for the magnolias 

     

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    Assuming you'll be camping out under that one with a bucket Paul?

    South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

    Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

     

    Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

     

    Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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    7 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

    Out walking Sancho and I peek under the cedar tree 

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    And there's a little Sabal. I'm guessing a bird planted this one. I think it's been there for a minute. I can't get much closer with the camera because I've got to move back a bunch of other branches. I guess I need to clear out around it. 

    No John as we talked about it remember, the aliens did it! 

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    A stack of dypsis onilihanses seeds to give away! Weeping form of course. 

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    Interesting flowers on the Chambeyronia Macrocarpa . This is the first inflorescence so I’m not sure fruit will happen . Previous spathes would not open at all. HarryIMG_1234.thumb.jpeg.2b24dbe107cda805964a098a317618ca.jpeg

    By the look of the crown shaft swelling , maybe more on the way.

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    3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

    Interesting flowers on the Chambeyronia Macrocarpa . This is the first inflorescence so I’m not sure fruit will happen . Previous spathes would not open at all. HarryIMG_1234.thumb.jpeg.2b24dbe107cda805964a098a317618ca.jpeg

    By the look of the crown shaft swelling , maybe more on the way.

    My o es have flowered for about 3 seasons in a row now and no seeds as of yet! 
    Richard 

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    A nice small dypsis plumosa I can get to quite easily. Super tough palm growing in sandstone rocks, very hot and dry! 

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    My verschaffeltia splendida gaining size and opening a new leaf.

    and my Areca macrocalyx starting to show some nice colour. 
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     Calyptrocalyx hollrungii! 

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    After a few months : dictyocarium lamarkianum first leaf !

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    On 2/8/2026 at 4:56 PM, Foggy Paul said:

    Huge inflorescence on an Arenga micrantha ready to pop at the SF Botanical Garden. Everyone else was there for the magnolias 

     

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    It’s rewarding to be different sometimes. Though at the end of the day we’re all looking at flowers, some more special than others.

    Chrysalidocarpus Basilongus

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    Dypsis basilonga seedlings looking good, somewhat a few years behind @Hilo Jason but they will get there. 

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    Never get tired of Chambeyronia macrocarpa var hookeri new growth. 

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    Tim Brisbane

    Patterson Lakes, bayside Melbourne, Australia

    Rarely Frost

    2005 Minimum: 2.6C,  Maximum: 44C

    2005 Average: 17.2C, warmest on record.

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    8 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

    Never get tired of Chambeyronia macrocarpa var hookeri new growth. 

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    I have a lot of hookeri in my garden so iam expecting a bit of pop this season! You’re looking pretty good though in sunny warm Melbourne! 

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    My observation on the Chambeyronia Hookeri is that they seem to be more robust . The new red fronds that are shown here @happypalms and @tim_brissy_13 both seem to be larger than the more common C. Macrocarpa that I have seen. The C. Hookeri I got seeds from in Ventura , California is not only different in crown shaft coloring , it is like a Macrocarpa on steroids! I have only seen a couple of them so I don’t know if it is truly a bigger palm or just the ones I’ve seen. Harry

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