The ever reliable radicalis fits into any situation in the garden easy to grow and germinate sets seeds easy can almost be used as a ground cover if get the trunkless variety planted on mass cold tolerant a good patio indoor plant or in a nice container in a palm collection just because it’s common doesn’t mean it hasn’t got beauty and grace a great chamaedorea to grow 

They look so good once they form a trunk. Purchased a couple of arborescens for a semi shade area of the garden this spring and they are growing well.

3 hours ago, RichardHemsley said:

They look so good once they form a trunk. Purchased a couple of arborescens for a semi shade area of the garden this spring and they are growing well.

Yes you can’t beat them for easy growing and predictable growth plus cold tolerance opens up many a gardening opportunity in most situations they even take a bit of sun well not hot afternoon sun but definitely bright dappled shade.

I have several , all from one pot of mature specimens that I bought many years ago. Here they take full sun even when they are young but really look better in some shade. I get lots of seeds from them so I plant them under larger palms . I just push  the fruit into the soil and soon there is a baby palm growing! They can get pretty tall.Harry 

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I have several , all from one pot of mature specimens that I bought many years ago. Here they take full sun even when they are young but really look better in some shade. I get lots of seeds from them so I plant them under larger palms . I just push  the fruit into the soil and soon there is a baby palm growing! They can get pretty tall.Harry 

They would have to one of easier palms to grow and propagate I get them popping up all over the place some I weed out others I leave I might germinate these ones from the trunk less varieties I prefer those ones they can get up to 3 meters tall probably taller but still a nice palm Richard 

Does anyone have seeds for the trunkless form? I’m in the Ohio snowbelt but our soil/under the snow temps are closer to zone 8 temps than to zone 6. I think the trunkless variety would do well buried under that snow. It barely gets below freezing under all of our snow.

2 hours ago, Ohiopalmloverz6 said:

Does anyone have seeds for the trunkless form? I’m in the Ohio snowbelt but our soil/under the snow temps are closer to zone 8 temps than to zone 6. I think the trunkless variety would do well buried under that snow. It barely gets below freezing under all of our snow.

Yes I do, but not sure if it stays true to form from seed. Pm me if you’re interested in importing. But iam sure someone in the US should have seeds. I have them now ready to pick. 

All of mine end up as tree form. Harry

1 hour ago, Harry’s Palms said:

All of mine end up as tree form. Harry

I did hear that the trunkless variety eventually get a trunk. My ones without a trunk are 30 years old so iam still in the jury box on the information I was given.

Richard 

 

5 hours ago, happypalms said:

I did hear that the trunkless variety eventually get a trunk. My ones without a trunk are 30 years old so iam still in the jury box on the information I was given.

Richard 

 

Nope, there are really dwarf strains. I vouch for this!

Have you come across a radicalis with such thick stem

Trunking and dwarf form side by side

1 hour ago, Phoenikakias said:

Nope, there are really dwarf strains. I vouch for this!

Have you come across a radicalis with such thick stem

Trunking and dwarf form side by side

Omg shes a trunk and a half that one, I have yet to see my trunkless ones get a trunk. So iam not sure about this myth I have heard. When you say dwarf do you mean a variety that is smaller than the other trunkless varieties or just a stocky plant without a trun? 

2 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

Nope, there are really dwarf strains. I vouch for this!

Have you come across a radicalis with such thick stem

Trunking and dwarf form side by side

Konstantinos the low form comes from my seeds?

23 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Konstantinos the low form comes from my seeds?

Of course my friend!

49 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Omg shes a trunk and a half that one, I have yet to see my trunkless ones get a trunk. So iam not sure about this myth I have heard. When you say dwarf do you mean a variety that is smaller than the other trunkless varieties or just a stocky plant without a trun? 

Absolutely no trunk. Just leaf sheathes protruding from soi, meaning that half of the leaf base remains under surface. Those plan5s are older than the nearby trunking ones.

36 minutes ago, Phoenikakias said:

Of course my friend!

Well, they were made with the first seeds that arrived in the 1980s from the USA to a friend of mine.
(I hope the chamaedorea seeds I sent you yesterday arrive.)

32 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Well, they were made with the first seeds that arrived in the 1980s from the USA to a friend of mine.
(I hope the chamaedorea seeds I sent you yesterday arrive.)

Very interesting information! I have found out also a couple other distinctive features of the dwarf form compared to the trunking one. Leaves of former have a rougher texture and seeds are smaller. Latter has a more glabrous texture and a subglaucous color on petioles and leaflets, perhaps due to more sun and wind exposure. Also seeds of latter are bigger. My oldest radicalis had been bought from Germany as a plant with already pinnate leaves, which had identical texture the the rest plants from your seeds. It used to remain for ever dwarf too, but I had the impression that it had a subterranean, creeping small trunk, just like Howea belmoreana. Unfortunately it got pissed to death by my dog.