Palm ID

[Mangosteen]

Lost the tag on this palm. Just grew out a nice red leaf. Thank you.

[realarch]

Boy, I don’t know what that is……but what a nice habit. Wonder if it’s a Calyptrocalyx?

Tim

[fiji jim]

Could be Calyptrocalyx albertisianus

 

[tim_brissy_13]

Laccospadix australasica solitary variant ?

[Palmarum]

Wow... that's something you don't see everyday.

Echoing Tim above, it does strongly resemble Laccospadix. I have never seen one with a trunk/stem outside of a habitat photo. Are the inflorescences unbranched? If so, that would push it real close to being identified as L. australasicus. I guess the spelling of the epithet changed, I always thought it was '...lasica'.

A very nice 're-find' and a showy way for the palm to get your attention.

Ryan

[Mangosteen]

1 hour ago, Palmarum said:

Wow... that's something you don't see everyday.

Echoing Tim above, it does strongly resemble Laccospadix. I have never seen one with a trunk/stem outside of a habitat photo. Are the inflorescences unbranched? If so, that would push it real close to being identified as L. australasicus. I guess the spelling of the epithet changed, I always thought it was '...lasica'.

A very nice 're-find' and a showy way for the palm to get your attention.

Ryan

I found it at what seemed to be an almost abandoned palm nursery years back outside of Hilo. It already had a pretty good size trunk ; couldn't pass it up. As I recall now,  the label did say  "Laccospadix australasica".

[realarch]

Very Good guys!

Tim

[Palmarum]

6 hours ago, Mangosteen said:

I found it at what seemed to be an almost abandoned palm nursery years back outside of Hilo. It already had a pretty good size trunk ; couldn't pass it up. As I recall now,  the label did say  "Laccospadix australasica".

Great find. That is most likely a very old plant. It may have been in a pot for a long, long time before you brought it home and made it happy by planting it.

That new red leaf is its way of saying 'thanks'.

Ryan