Mnazi Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 Can anyone please help me to identify this young palm? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlyn Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 Chambeyronia Macrocarpa, aka "Flamethrower Palm." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnazi Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 I suspected it was Chambeyronia, Merlyn, but wasn't sure. Thank you so much for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 I’m going to put a spanner in the works and say Dypsis lanceolata which is now Chrysalidocarpus lanceolata. The coloration of the leaf bases and the small amount of furriness on the petioles are not a Chambeyronia macrocarpa thing. Otherwise at that stage the two species look very similar. 3 4 Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmsandLiszt Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 The base definitely doesn't look right for Chambeyronia. I think @Tyrone has nailed it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnazi Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 Hah... Thanks, Tyrone and PalmsandLiszt. I honestly don't know any better, but I have grown Chambeyronia from seed and it did look similar except for the furriness. If it is Dypsis lanceolata, then even better. So a bit of background as to why I was asking. I paid for a Ponapea hosinoi online and this is the young palm I received in the mail. I tried to tell the seller that this isn't Ponapea and in fact doesn't look like any Ptychospermatinae species, but he is insistent that it is Ponapea. So I turned to PalmTalk for some expert advice. Thank you, everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 8 hours ago, Mnazi said: Hah... Thanks, Tyrone and PalmsandLiszt. I honestly don't know any better, but I have grown Chambeyronia from seed and it did look similar except for the furriness. If it is Dypsis lanceolata, then even better. So a bit of background as to why I was asking. I paid for a Ponapea hosinoi online and this is the young palm I received in the mail. I tried to tell the seller that this isn't Ponapea and in fact doesn't look like any Ptychospermatinae species, but he is insistent that it is Ponapea. So I turned to PalmTalk for some expert advice. Thank you, everyone! No problem. That’s what the forum is for. It certainly isn’t anything in the Ptychosperma tribe. It would have the ripped leaflet look if it was. 1 Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlyn Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 @MnaziI'd never heard of Ponapea Hosinoi before, so there's no way I could rule it out. I looked in my nursery area for my last surviving Dypsis Lanceolata, but I couldn't find it. I think it must have died from the last frosts and I just didn't mark it as D-E-D in my spreadsheet. I do have a couple of smaller C. Macrocarpa in the ground, they are definitely very glossy on the rachis & petiole. So my guess was definitely wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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