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Palmgrass - Setaria palmifolia?

fotodimatti

By fotodimatti
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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Hi there!

I am a very happy owner of this palmgrass. See photos attached. Can anybody please verify whether this is Setaria palmifolia?

Its a great indoor plant. Not suffering from dry heating in winter. It keeps growing and growing.

Thanks, Matti

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Silas_Sancona Grand Master

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2 hours ago, fotodimatti said:

Hi there!

I am a very happy owner of this palmgrass. See photos attached. Can anybody please verify whether this is Setaria palmifolia?

Its a great indoor plant. Not suffering from dry heating in winter. It keeps growing and growing.

Thanks, Matti

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Look through the photo gallery for the species here.. Note leave arrangement along the stems / True, grass - like flower / seed heads.   https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/168884-Setaria-palmifolia

If it flowers, it is likely this... The other " Palm Grass ": https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/276914-Molineria-capitulata

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Does it get a yellow almost subterranean flower it looks like molinera capitulata I have one with purple undersides 

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Looks to be some species of Curculigo. Great plants. I've grown one or the other of Curculigo capitulata and C. orchidoides, in southern Mississippi, the Florida Keys, and now in the Palm Springs (low desert) area of California. It's a wonderful and adaptable 'filler' plant that makes a very nice mass lining driveways/walkways, etc.. Interesting that it's actually in the Amaryllis family (who would guess it?) but surprisingly cold-hardy (half-hardy/dieback perennial) and really gives a nice impression of a bunch of Syagrus seedlings (or something similar). 

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Michael Norell

Rancho Mirage, California | 33°44' N 116°25' W | 287 ft | z10a | avg Jan 43/70F | Jul 78/108F avg | Weather Station KCARANCH310

previously Big Pine Key, Florida | 24°40' N 81°21' W | 4.5 ft. | z12a | Calcareous substrate | avg annual min. approx 52F | avg Jan 65/75F | Jul 83/90 | extreme min approx 41F

previously Natchez, Mississippi | 31°33' N 91°24' W | 220 ft.| z9a | Downtown/river-adjacent | Loess substrate | avg annual min. 23F | Jan 43/61F | Jul 73/93F | extreme min 2.5F (1899); previously Los Angeles, California (multiple locations)

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Indeed it now starts to flower. So it’s ( Curculigo) capitulata. 
thanks for the feedbacks. 
 

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