happypalms Another day in paradise in the garden

[peachy]

You are all safe. I hate flying even more than I do clumping palms.

Peachy

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, peachy said:

You are all safe. I hate flying even more than I do clumping palms.

Peachy

Looks like a Fairstar cruise ship for you then, 6 month round world trip should suit you well my possum. I hear they have a Joan Collin’s show onboard now that lady had some clever one liners! 
Richard 

[happypalms]

Yep at again planting a couple of nice exotics, I give the garden five years and it should be looking pretty good! 

[tim_brissy_13]

On 11/24/2025 at 2:46 AM, KrisKupsch said:

As it’s a place name you’d think you’d spell it correctly. I’ve a hundred or so in pots. The big ones in the ground are perfect incredible specimens that have seen several winters without any problem at all. I guess you didn’t see them here Richard. No need to get them from the north, I’ve lots of them here, adapted and perfect. As for peachy not liking clumping palms lol you should make an allowance for this, it’s a good Palm indeed, fragrant flowers and very compact and dainty. Definitely will be popular in the future. Again Richard I’ve lots, don’t go getting anymore from the north when I can give you some for free. Happy to share if you have only 1, that’s not enough

I remember yours well Kris, nice little palm and clearly pretty tough. I think you even suggested I should try one down here but at the time I assumed it would be torture. Based on some reports in this thread maybe they are worth a shot. I got a bunch of A triandra through winter (admittedly in my unheated greenhouse so somewhat protected) with only minor spotting. 

[Tropical Toni]

Beautiful !!! 🤩

I just unboxed my lil mapu today !! Have him in my greenhouse cabinet next to Joey. In the summer I think he will spend time outdoors on my porch. 
 

this may sound silly but I’m worried about the mottling disappearing if there’s not enough light. lol. I know they are shade lovers !

[happypalms]

30 minutes ago, xtazia said:

Beautiful !!! 🤩

I just unboxed my lil mapu today !! Have him in my greenhouse cabinet next to Joey. In the summer I think he will spend time outdoors on my porch. 
 

this may sound silly but I’m worried about the mottling disappearing if there’s not enough light. lol. I know they are shade lovers !

There pretty amazing to look at absolutely gorgeous, just keep an eye on the humidity they love it.

With lanonia dasyatha they lose there mottling if fertilised a lot, iam not sure about MAPU losing mottling it’s a very dominant mottling they have. But the ones I have I won’t be pushing fertiliser a lot on them just to try too avoid them losing there colour.

Definatly a shade lover and water they will drink any amount of water given provided they have drainage.

[peachy]

18 hours ago, happypalms said:

Looks like a Fairstar cruise ship for you then, 6 month round world trip should suit you well my possum. I hear they have a Joan Collin’s show onboard now that lady had some clever one liners! 
Richard 

Have you ever seen the people who go on cruises ?  Might as well lock myself in an RSL Club for that time. They even allow children ! It would be more pleasant in a Siberian Gulag

 

[happypalms]

2 minutes ago, peachy said:

Have you ever seen the people who go on cruises ?  Might as well lock myself in an RSL Club for that time. They even allow children ! It would be more pleasant in a Siberian Gulag

 

Actually that’s the reason I never wanted wanted to go on a cruise ship bloomin kids. I went to Vanuatu once and the wife insisted on staying at a particular resort , and I said yes honey but it’s a kids stay free resort do you realise that the kids will be all over the resort like ants on honey, guess who didn’t like her resort holiday because of all those screaming little ankle biters. And you guessed it I got the blame for that resort choice. 
At least if you locked  yourself in star city casino you  might win a mottzah.

Richard 

[peachy]

3 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Actually that’s the reason I never wanted wanted to go on a cruise ship bloomin kids. I went to Vanuatu once and the wife insisted on staying at a particular resort , and I said yes honey but it’s a kids stay free resort do you realise that the kids will be all over the resort like ants on honey, guess who didn’t like her resort holiday because of all those screaming little ankle biters. And you guessed it I got the blame for that resort choice. 
At least if you locked  yourself in star city casino you  might win a mottzah.

Richard 

What is a mottzah ?   

 

[Tropical Toni]

 

51 minutes ago, happypalms said:

There pretty amazing to look at absolutely gorgeous, just keep an eye on the humidity they love it.

With lanonia dasyatha they lose there mottling if fertilised a lot, iam not sure about MAPU losing mottling it’s a very dominant mottling they have. But the ones I have I won’t be pushing fertiliser a lot on them just to try too avoid them losing there colour.

Definatly a shade lover and water they will drink any amount of water given provided they have drainage.

Regarding fertilizer - how often do you plan on feeding your mapu ? you think adding fertilizer will cause the mottling to fade ? 

[Tropical Toni]

Here’s my mapu in my cabinet. 
the funky color is my grow lights are pink 😁

[Bkue]

I took about a dozen fresh from s fla. Only got one to germ. Maybe others come later? 

[happypalms]

We all love flowers and they brighten up any day, so have little brightness from happypalms. 

[happypalms]

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, Bkue said:

I took about a dozen fresh from s fla. Only got one to germ. Maybe others come later? 

Nice little palm, it’s definitely past the spike stage so I don’t think anymore will pop up they usually germinate in a big flush. You might get lucky and get the odd one pop up, 

[happypalms]

7 hours ago, peachy said:

What is a mottzah ?   

 

A stack of cash 💰 my dear possum! 

Richard 

[happypalms]

On 11/25/2025 at 2:19 PM, xtazia said:

 

Regarding fertilizer - how often do you plan on feeding your mapu ? you think adding fertilizer will cause the mottling to fade ? 

I only fertilise with liquid fish emulsion or liquid kelp. Usually 2 ferts one water then two waters one fert. But if you’re plant is healthy and in good health from the organic matter in the potting mix just a little liquid feed occasionally will do wonders.

[happypalms]

On 11/25/2025 at 2:26 PM, xtazia said:

Here’s my mapu in my cabinet. 
the funky color is my grow lights are pink 😁

Beautiful little mapu! 

[happypalms]

The old leaf dropped off and you could see where the flower spathe once was. The palm obviously decided it wasn’t going to flower for whatever reasons!

[Tyrone]

It’s practising. Next time. 

[happypalms]

29 minutes ago, Tyrone said:

It’s practising. Next time. 

It was actually the first flower it had after 25 years, not yet was the thought! I now have about 5 more flowering stronger and stronger each season so hopefully in a few years I will manage to get some seeds for WA ! 

[happypalms]

A couple more palms go in the understory, a nice juvenile calciphilla that will look good in a few years time. And now I have worked out how to grow iguanura palms, they are tricky little critters that’s for sure but I worked them out. I had some teething troubles at first with them but got there. So now it’s time to get them in the ground and hopefully no more trouble with them! 

[peachy]

My little Iguanara lives happily outside but is very slow growing. The cold doesn't seem to worry it at all.  If it would only pick up pace it would be perfect

Peachy

[Darold Petty]

On 8/17/2023 at 3:41 PM, happypalms said:

I collected this palm seed 25 years ago at my mate’s wedding from a suckering variety but this one never suckered 

 

 

On 10/31/2025 at 3:51 PM, happypalms said:

Yes they stay single and non clumping! 

 

Ok, guys which is it , stable to parent or not ?

Last Monday I purchased one from Jungle Music, labeled as 'suckering',  but the palm has no suckers.  The  very reliable plant supplier to JM said the seed parent was suckering.   Is is possible that the palm is slow to develop suckers ?

  I grow three plants of the suckering form, and it is one of my favorite palms.  Two have a faint red flush to the new frond. 

I once had one as red as a Chambeyronia, but it died after I looked at it without proper reverence.  Here is the bitter evidence !

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, Darold Petty said:

Ok, guys which is it , stable to parent or not ?

Last Monday I purchased one from Jungle Music, labeled as 'suckering',  but the palm has no suckers.  The  very reliable plant supplier to JM said the seed parent was suckering.   Is is possible that the palm is slow to develop suckers ?

  I grow three plants of the suckering form, and it is one of my favorite palms.  Two have a faint red flush to the new frond. 

I once had one as red as a Chambeyronia, but it died after I looked at it without proper reverence.  Here is the bitter evidence !

It gets a bit more confusing with some throwing a red leaf and otheres not so red,   I might have to go back now 25?years and have a good look at the original parent plant I collected seeds from and see if I can get any cross referencing material in regards to suckering traits. 
Unfortunately it’s a bit like getting the wrongly labeled palm and having to wait 25 years for it to flower to correctly identify it. 
I guess Mother Nature plays tricks at times. 

[happypalms]

12 hours ago, peachy said:

My little Iguanara lives happily outside but is very slow growing. The cold doesn't seem to worry it at all.  If it would only pick up pace it would be perfect

Peachy

There slow for me as well, as usual they love the heat and water. At first I had them in the hothouse big mistake I made lost a few and had big problems with burnt leaf edges, thinking they needed mega warm temperatures in winter. 
Surprising how tough they are to cold the only thing that slows them down in the cold is metabolic rate due to the cold making for slow growth. But they love my summer temperatures if given enough water! 

[peachy]

On 11/1/2025 at 8:51 AM, happypalms said:

Yes they stay single and non clumping! 

This is the reason I have kept away from Laccospadix. They are such a pretty little palm but I am disinclined to waste time and money on one if it decides to clump.

[happypalms]

A beautiful almost white silver colour on the elegans flower at the moment, the ground is covered in tiny star dust looking particles. It’s just a shame it’s 7 metres up in in the sub canopy. 
The iPhone pic just quit can’t capture what the naked eye can see. 

[Tyrone]

Aren’t they normally a burgundy colour. 

[Harry’s Palms]

That is a beauty! Is this hardier than the Ptychosperma McCarthuri? I tried two McCarthuri years ago and they didn’t make it so I have been very reluctant to plant any of these. Harry

[happypalms]

19 hours ago, peachy said:

This is the reason I have kept away from Laccospadix. They are such a pretty little palm but I am disinclined to waste time and money on one if it decides to clump.

The good old clumping palm that always has the last laugh. 
Richard 

[PalmBossTampa]

Great reading everyone’s experiences here. I also just purchased a few from Floribunda in the spring. They were on my ‘to find’ list as i researched deeper into Australian native species. I have some Brachychiton rupestris. (Only non-palm I truly LOVE ) in an area where i want to also add Archontophoenix, assorted Livistonas,Pytchospermas, Linospadix, Arenga australasica, Caryota rump hi Ana, and starting Australian native cycads there too. It’s going to be a beautiful combination of palmate/pinnate Clumping/non C’ing OH, almost forgot Licuala ramsayi!!!! I’d love to visit all these one day in the wild, but realizing I wouldn’t see them all IN ONE DAY 

Peace ✌🏻Palm Lovers from down under 

[peachy]

Very pretty. Mine always have dark flowers. I do have one that puts out a red new leaf however so they must be one of those variable species.  I often see Alexanders with very thin dark trunks in gardens too.

Peachy

[happypalms]

18 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Aren’t they normally a burgundy colour. 

That’s what I thought!

[happypalms]

15 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

That is a beauty! Is this hardier than the Ptychosperma McCarthuri? I tried two McCarthuri years ago and they didn’t make it so I have been very reluctant to plant any of these. Harry

They are tougher than McArthur palms, I grow a few McArthur in my garden not a B problem, I don’t think they like a lot of chill hours. They do take the cool just not hundreds of hours of it. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, peachy said:

Very pretty. Mine always have dark flowers. I do have one that puts out a red new leaf however so they must be one of those variable species.  I often see Alexanders with very thin dark trunks in gardens too.

Peachy

The one I have up the back part of the garden has the dark flowers. Not sure what’s going on with this one! 
Richard 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, PalmBossTampa said:

Great reading everyone’s experiences here. I also just purchased a few from Floribunda in the spring. They were on my ‘to find’ list as i researched deeper into Australian native species. I have some Brachychiton rupestris. (Only non-palm I truly LOVE ) in an area where i want to also add Archontophoenix, assorted Livistonas,Pytchospermas, Linospadix, Arenga australasica, Caryota rump hi Ana, and starting Australian native cycads there too. It’s going to be a beautiful combination of palmate/pinnate Clumping/non C’ing OH, almost forgot Licuala ramsayi!!!! I’d love to visit all these one day in the wild, but realizing I wouldn’t see them all IN ONE DAY 

Peace ✌🏻Palm Lovers from down under 

They are a lovely palm, and my one has seeds on it at the moment. 
There is a place called Dorrigo on the east coast not far from where I live and you can see thousands of linospadix monostachya covering the forest floor, there are also lepidozamia perrofskyana in my area as well in large numbers. But you forgot about linospadix minor, and the calmus varieties in Australia that form great thickets scrambling up into the trees, Cunninghamii palms that absolutely form huge stands in the gullies. There’s not a great amount of palm varieties in Australia in comparison to Asia, Madagascar and South America but there are some beautiful varieties of cycads and some beautiful palms in Australia.

[PalmBossTampa]

4 hours ago, happypalms said:

They are a lovely palm, and my one has seeds on it at the moment. 
There is a place called Dorrigo on the east coast not far from where I live and you can see thousands of linospadix monostachya covering the forest floor, there are also lepidozamia perrofskyana in my area as well in large numbers. But you forgot about linospadix minor, and the calmus varieties in Australia that form great thickets scrambling up into the trees, Cunninghamii palms that absolutely form huge stands in the gullies. There’s not a great amount of palm varieties in Australia in comparison to Asia, Madagascar and South America but there are some beautiful varieties of cycads and some beautiful palms in Australia.

I forgot about my favorite new palm name Normambya normambyi 😊 Ive seen millions of foxtails but this is new to me this year and i love the young leaves

[Darold Petty]

11 hours ago, PalmBossTampa said:

 OH, almost forgot Licuala ramsayi!!!! I’d love to visit all these one day in the wild, but realizing I wouldn’t see them all IN ONE DAY 

Peace ✌🏻Palm Lovers from down under 

I visited Dunk Island in 1984, and the closed canopy of Licuala ramsayi fronds made a very pleasing sound as they rustled in the wind.  

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, PalmBossTampa said:

I forgot about my favorite new palm name Normambya normambyi 😊 Ive seen millions of foxtails but this is new to me this year and i love the young leaves

Highly underrated the normanbya far more exotic than foxtail. A bit more of a water lover than foxtail, but a mature one is a beautiful plant. Foxtail have become so common even in Darwin in the Northern Territory councils are asking home gardeners to not plant them they grow like a weed on steroids up there!